Northern Powergrid seeks 100MW of flex
Northern Powergrid is attempting to procure up to 100MW of flexible demand or generation via a reverse online auction.
The minimum threshold is 100kW and...
RedT CEO to leave as Avalon merger moves forward
RedT chief executive Scott McGregor is to leave the firm at the year end, along with non-executive director Jeff Kenna.
The exits come ahead of...
WPD and Nord Pool combine on broader flexibility market trial
Western Power Distribution and Nord Pool are collaborating to trial a flexibility market that wraps in day ahead, intraday and imbalance aspects.
The IntraFlex project,...
Centrica’s local energy market now selling flex across transmission and distribution
Centrica says its local energy market is now live and enabling balancing services at both transmission and distribution level.
Under the EU-funded programme, Centrica aims...
Origami taps Ocado CTO in digital twin push
Flexibility platform provider Origami has appointed Ocado chief technology officer Paul Clarke to its advisory board.
The firm hopes to tap Clarke’s experience and network,...
National Grid launches tender for multi-year stability services
National Grid Electricity System Operator is going to market for stability services to manage inertia, dynamic voltage and short circuit levels from April 2020...
SSEN: Greater efficiency required to scale flex
Flexibility is fundamental to SSEN’s strategy, says Stewart Reid, the DNO’s head of future networks. But co-ordination is required to unlock the market.
Local flexibility...
Capacity Market cleared
The Capacity Market will soon be back in play after the European Commission approved it. Energy companies with agreements are looking forward to getting...
Smartest Energy starts trading flex in balancing mechanism
Smartest Energy has started trading flexibility within the balancing mechanism (BM), dispatching first megawatts today at £74/MWh.
The company provides power purchase agreements (PPAs) to...
National Grid outlines plans to buy more inertia
National Grid plans to launch a tender for new inertia services next month for delivery from April.
Electricity system operator director, Fintan Slye, recently suggested...
9MW BTM battery goes live at Port of Tilbury
A 9MW behind-the-meter battery is now live at Port of Tilbury.
The storage project, owned by Gore Street Energy Fund, is using Origami’s platform to...
Balancing market forecasting that is ‘more accurate than National Grid’
The energy market has been getting progressively more complex over the past decade with the amount of individual generation units producing power increasing, intermittency...
Fluence: Lithium-ion batteries can deliver six hour grid services
Lithium-ion batteries will soon deliver economically viable daily storage – not just short duration bursts, according to Marek Kubik, market director at Fluence Energy.
Speaking...
Fintan Slye: Inertia is “taken for granted”; it will become much more important
Inertia in the GB power system will become far more valuable according to the head of the system operator, Fintan Slye.
"Inertia will become much...
National Grid launches Mersey reactive power tender
National Grid has launched a tender for reactive power in the Mersey region. The ESO said it is the first time embedded assets have...
Kiwi Power adds 15MW of battery storage, 80MW by year end
Kiwi Power has added 15MW of battery storage to its management portfolio.
The aggregator has signed an optimisation agreement with Gresham House New Energy for...
Mark Davis swaps Total for GridBeyond
Demand-side response and flexibility firm GridBeyond has hired Mark Davis as UK & Ireland director.
Davis was previously head of UK business development for Total...
Free Powervault storage devices
Energy platform Kaluza and storage firm Powervault are offering free home battery storage units for a limited time.
Kaluza, owned by Ovo Group, has struck...
WPD contracts 119MW of flexibility
Western Power Distribution said it has awarded flexibility contracts totalling 119MW following its latest procurement round.
The DNO awarded contracts to 35 participants operating a...
Scottish Power Energy Networks seeks 95MW flex, signs with Piclo
Scottish Power Energy Networks has signed a commercial partnership with flexibility marketplace Piclo in a bid to find 95MW of DSR, storage and generation...