Sunday demand to drop to 13.8GW, National Grid seeks more footroom
National Grid ESO expects demand on the transmission system to hit a new low this weekend and will likely need to call on its...
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...
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...
PeakGen and Zenobe land nine year reactive power contracts
PeakGen and Zenobe have won £8.7m in contracts to provide reactive power, which helps keep voltage stable, in Mersey.
National Grid said it had picked...
Power Transition crowdfunds ‘not blockchain’ peer-to-peer energy tech
A software firm is bidding to build local energy markets using distributed ledger technology that it claims is orders of magnitude faster than blockchain.
Power...
If we don’t get 10GW of storage fast, EFR prices ‘will look like peanuts’
National Grid's new measures to push power off the system offer a glimpse of the not too distant future: Without greater flexibility, balancing gets...
United Utilities installs 2MW battery alongside solar
United Utilities has installed a 2MW battery alongside solar power at a treatment works in Preston.
The water company said the batteries will improve site...
Ylem attempts to woo TPIs with BTM asset commissions
Ylem Energy is attempting to grow its behind the meter flexible asset business by offering TPIs commissions.
Ylem, which is deploying gas engines and battery...
Push harder on flexibility and half hourly settlement, firms tell Ofgem
A group of energy and technology companies have urged Ofgem to show “leadership” and expedite market-wide half hourly settlement to unlock flexibility from small...
Energy storage: Why UK industry isn’t going with the flow
Flow storage struggles to compete against lithium even in long duration applications, suggests Marek Kubik, market director at Fluence Energy.
The UK hit a new...
National Grid extends EDF contract to turn down Sizewell B
National Grid has extended the contract it struck with EDF to reduce output from the Sizewell B nuclear station in a bid to keep...
Zenobe picks EDF to trade 59MW of battery storage
Battery storage developer Zenobe has picked EDF to trade flexibility from 59MW of grid-scale assets.
The utility will optimise three of Zenobe's operational batteries at...
Invinity sells 1.7MWh new flow storage despite Covid
Invinity Energy Systems, the vanadium flow storage company created by the merger of Avalon and RedT, says it has signed orders for 1.7MWh of...
Tesla granted electricity generation licence ahead of VPP push
Tesla Motors has been granted a UK electricity generation licence enabling it to further local ambitions as an energy business.
The electric carmaker is planning...
600MWh: Statera plans UK’s biggest battery at Thurrock
Statera-owned Thurrock Power is planning to build the UK’s largest battery as part of a hybrid 750MW power plant.
According to documents lodged with the...
Kensa starts deploying smart heat pumps at Oxford ‘superhub’ project
Heat pump firm Kensa and housing provider Stonewater have started installing the first smart heat pumps as part of the Oxford ‘superhub’ smart grid...
UK Power Networks awards 123MW of flex contracts – EVs included
UK Power Networks has awarded contracts for 123MW of flexible power worth £14m, with flexibility from electric vehicles making up part of the mix.
The...
Build back circular: Green recovery needs greener batteries
Aceleron CEO Amrit Chandan urges businesses to embrance circular economy principles to build a better society post-Covid - greener batteries included.
The Covid-19 pandemic has...
Flexitricity VPP hits half a gigawatt, predicts “dramatic growth” for DSR
Aggregator Flexitricity claims its virtual power plant (VPP) has reached 500MW - and predicts a boom for the sector.
The firm said a 15MW asset...