Flex keeping lights on, study finds
Flexibility providers are succeeding in stabilising grids stressed by depressed power demand and renewables’ intermittency, academics advising biomass giant Drax suggest.
Margins for grid failure...
End of double charging for battery storage: What are the implications?
After Ofgem approved changes to end the issue of ‘double-charging’ for energy storage installations, Smartest Energy head of pricing, Tom Putney, explains the scenario...
DSR can bid for 15-year capacity market agreements
Demand-side response will be able to bid for 15-year capacity market agreements under changes to government’s flagship policy intended to keep the lights on...
Flexitricity to trade 75MWh battery for Gresham House
Aggregator Flexitricity will trade flexibility from Gresham House Energy Storage Fund's biggest battery storage scheme, the 50MW/75MWh Thurcroft development.
The Edinburgh-based firm already has a...
Piclo lands first international flex market deal
Flexibility marketplace provider Piclo has signed terms for its first international trial.
However, it will now work with a consortium led by Eles, Slovenia’s transmission...
Limejump adds Ylem’s 20MW Trafford peaker to virtual power plant
Shell-owned Limejump has added Ylem's new 20MW Trafford gas peaker to its virtual power plant.
Despite challenges due to coronavirus restrictions, Ylem commissioned the engines...
WPD steps up community flex, will disclose carbon of sources used
Western Power Distribution has pledged to work more closely with local authorities and community groups in a bid to unlock flexibility and enable net...
Electron: local energy markets will solve demand-supply issues
Local energy markets are required to solve challenges on the national power system, according to energy technology company Electron.
National Grid ESO is working on...
Piclo: Flexibility will halve network investment by 2050
Use of flexible energy technologies could halve network investment out to 2050, and shave tens of billions of pounds off the cost of decarbonisation,...
Gresham House to hit 364MW storage, says UK needs 10GW fast
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund remains on the acquisition trail, with assets committed to double its 174MW portfolio this year alone.
In its first full...
National Grid outlines new footroom service to tackle lockdown lows
National Grid ESO will go live with a new footroom service from 7 May, paying people to use more power over the summer or...
As solar breaks records, National Grid mulls turning it off
National Grid ESO is working out how to manage low demand on the transmission system exacerbated by the coronavirus lockdown. One option is paying...
National Grid delays Terre to October earliest
National Grid ESO says implementation of a pan-European balancing market will be delayed until October at the earliest due to Coronavirus.
Dubbed Terre, the Trans...
The battery storage market is being failed by its traders
In the medium term, only the best traders will survive in the battery storage market, suggests Kiwi Power head energy merchant, Aaron Lally.
Battery storage...
Ylem repurposes landfill gas engines for flex at old colliery
Ylem Energy has repurposed engines from its landfill gas fleet and deployed them at an old colliery in Lancashire.
The 6.6MW scheme will now be...
Flexitricity marks a first in balancing mechanism with battery trade
Flexitricity has become the first aggregator to trade in the balancing mechanism as a virtual lead party - a key change implemented by National...
Anesco hires Centrica’s power markets director and touts route to market
New Anesco boss Mark Futyan has returned to his former employer for the company’s latest hire – with the firm now touting route to...
Coronavirus demand destruction gives National Grid another plate to spin
National Grid electricity system operator (ESO) has reassured the public that it has plenty of power to keep the lights on during the coronavirus...
Gresham House inks terms to buy latest 50MW battery project
Fast-expanding utility-scale storage fund Gresham House has agreed purchase conditions to buy its second 50MW battery project.
Today’s acquisition of the planned Wickham Market facility...
A year in DSR: Batteries disturb force, FFR prices rise, diesels still in play
Rising prices for firm frequency response at the tail end of 2019 brought more providers back into play, according to National Grid ESO.
Meanwhile Triad...