UK’s largest battery ready to balance the grid
Edinburgh based Flexitricity is optimising the Gresham House c.50MW / 75MWh battery, located in Thurcroft, South Yorkshire, generating revenue for the site while helping...
Electricity North West accelerates its flexibility procurement by signposting competitions on Piclo Flex
Electricity North West has accelerated its flexibility procurement by publishing a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) on Piclo Flex, an independent online marketplace for trading...
New solar and Tesla Batteries help to make Portsmouth Greener
A new large 250 kilo-watt (kW) solar system has been installed on the roofs of Portsmouth City Council's Hilsea Industrial Estate. This complements the...
Flexibility project reaches successful milestone
An ongoing power flexibility trial we're leading is demonstrating that flexibility can be bought and sold in a continuous short-term market. Over the past...
Kaluza works with Scottish wind farm to provide flexibility with new ODFM service
Kaluza, an intelligent energy platform, has begun working with Vento Ludens, owners and operators of the Muirake wind farm in Aberdeenshire, to provide a...
Closing the gap between industry and energy
“Energy services are not a peripheral, effective management and energy market participation is integral to business success” announced Michael Phelan, CEO at GridBeyond, in...
Need for a more flexible energy system highlighted by lockdown and conditions
An unusually low wind output coinciding with a number of generator outages means the cushion of spare capacity has been reduced said system operator...
Virtual Lead Parties could trade in the wholesale market
Elexon is calling for volunteers to join a new Workgroup to assess a Balancing and Settlement Code Modification proposal allowing Virtual Lead Parties to...
A further 222MW of flexibility takes WPD over its target, but it wants...
Western Power Distribution (WPD) has awarded a further 222MWs of flexibility as it concluded its sixth round of flexibility procurement.
To date, WPD has sought...
Long-duration alternative to Lithium batteries
The California Energy Commission has selected four energy storage projects incorporating vanadium flow batteries (VFBs) from UK-based Invinity Energy Systems for funding as part...
Four DNOs collaborate to streamline flexibility across networks
Four UK distribution network operators have joined together for the first time to provide flexibility providers with a direct path to participate in flexibility...
Need for speed: National Grid launches Dynamic Containment service
National Grid ESO will launch a new service to help balance the power grid this week.
Dynamic Containment is designed to bring frequency back to...
Intergen seeks generation licence for giant 700MWh battery storage scheme
Intergen has applied for a generation licence at Spalding Energy Park, where it has planning permission for a battery storage system of up to...
Limejump to trade flex from 46MW subsidy-free wind farm in BM and CM
Shell-owned virtual power plant operator Limejump has landed a deal to trade power from the 46MW Crossdykes wind farm in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.
The...
Inertia booster: Welsh Power and Quinbrook start work on flywheel flex project
Welsh Power and Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners have broken ground on a new project to help keep the GB power system stable.
Awarded one of five...
Tesla enters UK flex market as National Grid upgrades balancing mechanism tech
Tesla became the first party to trade flexible power in the balancing mechanism (BM) using National Grid's new control room API.
The electric carmaker, equipped...
Fire at Ørsted’s 20MW Carnegie Road battery storage site
Firefighters last night had to extinguish a blaze at Ørsted's 20MW battery storage scheme at Carnegie Road, Liverpool.
The Danish firm commissioned the site, it's...
Power prices soar as National Grid issues capacity market notice
Within day power prices today soared above £300 per megawatt hour within minutes of National Grid issuing a Capacity Market Notice.
At around 1pm, the...
AMP to build 175MW of gas engines after signing 15-year Statkraft deal
Statkraft has signed a 15-year deal to optimise 175MW of flexible gas engines for AMP Clean Energy.
The arrangement will enable AMP to finance the...
Alpiq sells Flexitricity for £15m
Swiss utility Alpiq has sold aggregator Flexitricity to Reserve Power Holdings in a share sale agreement worth around £15m.
The Edinburgh-based firm, one of the...