SMS launches virtual power plant following Solo buy

Smart Metering Systems is moving into the virtual power plant market after buying tech firm Solo Energy. SMS bought Solo Energy last autumn. The Cork-based...

Coronavirus: GridBeyond urges DSR providers to notify of demand changes

GridBeyond has urged industrial and commercial firms that provide demand-side response (DSR) services to notify aggregators of changes to predicted consumption patterns. As businesses shut...

Gresham House buys 50MW battery project, on track for 330MW

Gresham House Energy Storage Fund has bought its biggest battery storage project yet, a 50MW scheme in south Yorkshire. The grid-connected site at Thurcroft near...

150MW: Developers of UK’s biggest battery plan to make it bigger

The developers of the UK's largest battery are aiming to take it up to 150MW. And they say they can go even bigger. Penso Power,...

To Invinity and beyond: RedT and Avalon merger set to complete

Vanadium redox flow storage companies RedT and Avalon have agreed to complete their merger, subject to shareholder consent. The combined business will be called...

RedT strikes Bushveld vanadium deal, gets green light for Oxford Superhub

Flow storage company RedT says it has been given the nod to proceed with the 2MW/5MWh flow storage system aspect of the Oxford Superhub...

Cashing out and cashing in: What caused BM price spike?

LCP’s Kyle Martin delves into what caused yesterday’s system price spike. Yesterday at 6pm the system price in the balancing mechanism (BM) spiked to £2,242/MWh...

National Grid and UKPN combine on regional reactive power market

National Grid and UK Power Networks are working on a reactive power market trial in the south east - and now seek participants. The two...

£2,242MWh: Balancing mechanism prices hit multiyear high

Prices paid to generators to help keep the power system stable reached multiyear highs on Wednesday evening. National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) paid £2,242/MWh...

Gresham House Energy Storage raises £31 million to buy big batteries

Gresham House Energy Storage Fund has tapped backers for a further £31 million to expand its utility-scale battery fleet. It will use the money to...

WPD seeks companies to take part in IntraFlex flexibility market trial

Interested in participating in the flexibility markets but put off by the notification timescales? Then you might find that a new Western Power Distribution...

Electron, EDF, SSEN, Kaluza to launch Orkney flexibility exchange

A consortium including Community Energy Scotland, CGI, EDF, Elexon, Energy Systems Catapult, Kaluza and Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks is set to launch a...

Compare the flex market: Piclo lands Beis funding for next phase

Piclo is preparing to launch the next phase of its flexibility platform, a genuine marketplace that enables people to bid into multiple tenders –...

United Utilities buys 2MW battery, co-locates with solar, plans flex trades

United Utilities has ordered a 2MW battery storage system from Zenobe. Believed to be the biggest yet in the UK water industry, the utility...

Japan’s Sumitomo invests £36m in cryogenic storage firm Highview Power

Liquid air energy storage firm Highview Power has landed a $46m (£35.6m) investment from Japanese manufacturing giant Sumitomo Heavy Industries. Lancashire-based Highview has been seeking funds...

EDF and Wärtsilä strike 100MW battery deal

EDF has ordered 100MW of storage from Wärtsilä and will deploy the batteries at two UK projects, the 50MW Oxford 'superhub' and at a...

CLASS action: Is Ofgem opening a flexibility market can of worms?

Ofgem risks opening a can of worms by letting regulated distribution network operators provide commercial flexibility services when they are supposedly neutral market facilitators,...

Bristol City Hall to install battery storage

Bristol is to install a 300kW battery at City Hall later this year. The council has committed to decarbonise its own buildings by 2025...

China to build ‘Europe’s largest battery storage scheme’ in Wiltshire

China Huaneng Group is set to complete what it claims will be Europe's largest battery storage facility by the end of 2020 in Wiltshire. The...
The 40MW battery storage facility at Glassenbury, Kent

DNOs launch open database detailing generators over 1MW

Distribution network operators have launched a ‘system-wide resource register’, an open database containing details of some 5,000 distribution connected assets 1MW upwards. This includes battery...