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...
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...
Capacity market clears at £6.44, lowest yet
The latest capacity market (CM) auction for delivery over winter 2022/23 has cleared at £6.44 per kilowatt per year, the lowest outturn since the...
Drax, Welsh Power, Statkraft, Triton, Uniper land £328m inertia contracts
Drax, Rassau Grid Services (Welsh Power), Statkraft, Triton and Uniper have won six-year contracts to provide stability services to National Grid ESO.
They will be...
Habitat Energy lands 74MW battery flex management deal for Gresham House
Gresham House has been tapping aggregators and flexibility platforms to optimise its portfolio in recent months, signing agreements to manage around 60MW in total...
Energias De Portugal says flex will be key, invests in GridBeyond
GridBeyond has landed £9m funding in a round led by Energias De Portugal (EDP), one of the world’s biggest renewable energy companies.
The aggregator and...
Kaluza sells flex from domestic battery storage to WPD
Ovo’s smart grid company Kaluza has sold its first batch of flexibility from aggregated household batteries to Western Power Distribution.
The batteries were automatically dispatched...
Ofgem: DNOs must make progress with flexibility this year
Ofgem has urged distribution network operators (DNOs) to step up efforts to embed flexibility services within day-to-day operations.
Speaking at National Grid ESO’s Power Responsive...
WPD eyes 334MW of demand-side response
Western Power Distribution is going large on flex, aiming to procure 334MW of demand-side response (DSR) across a fifth of its network.
The distribution network...
Gresham House taps Flexitricity for 20MW hybrid project
Flexitricity will attempt to deliver best returns for Gresham House Energy Storage Fund's Noriker Staunch project, a 20MW hybrid gas and battery storage scheme...
Balancing mechanism now open to smaller players
Smaller generators and aggregated loads can now access the balancing mechanism (BM), opening up a £1.1bn market for demand-side response and flexible technologies.
National Grid...
Solar ventures firm FRV plans major UK battery storage push
Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) is to build a 15MWh battery storage scheme in Dorset. The company, which has traditionally developed large-scale solar projects around...
How to ride the waves of a changing energy market
It appears there’s one thing we can count on in the energy markets at the moment, and that is change. From the recent Targeted...
National Grid outlines future of frequency response
National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) has outlined the future of frequency response and reserve procurement as it bids to keep an increasingly renewables-driven...
New CEO at demand-side response firm Flexitricity
Demand-side response aggregator Flexitricity has appointed Simon Heyes as CEO, following Ron Ramage’s departure.
Heyes, a mechanical engineer, has extensive renewable energy experience. He was...
National Grid launches nine-year reactive power tender
National Grid ESO is offering nine-year contracts for reactive power services in the Mersey region.
Reactive power helps keep voltage levels stable, with providers either...