Why UK businesses are now competing with AI data centres for grid capacity
Commercial energy buyers have spent this year watching gas and power curves for the usual signals, storage levels, geopolitical risk, seasonal demand. A quieter...
PowerEdge selects Elisa Industriq’s Gridle for 37 MWh long-duration battery project in Finland
The 10MW/37MWh Pelkosenniemi project marks PowerEdge’s entry into utility-scale battery energy storage market in Finland, with Gridle selected as its long-term optimisation and trading...
Heidelberg Materials UK installs first on-site concrete batching plant at Sizewell C
Heidelberg Materials UK has installed the first on-site concrete batching plant at Sizewell C in East Suffolk, where the building materials company is supplying...
Ikigai & Rheenergise sign MOU to deploy Rheenergise’s high-density Hydro in Europe
Ikigai Energy (the development arm of the Ikigai Group) and RheEnergise have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop a robust pipeline of...
Why margin is energy retail’s biggest blind spot
By Ruben Van den Bossche, CEO and co-founder of Gorilla
What happens when an energy contract stops being profitable? And how long before anyone notices?
For...
GridBeyond: Smaller energy assets can unlock flexibility revenue
Businesses and public sector organisations could earn additional revenue from energy equipment they already own through aggregation, speakers told The Energyst’s latest webinar with...
Four building and engineering firms secure contracts across three multimillion-pound BESS schemes
Four engineering and building firms have been appointed to support the roll-out of three new multimillion-pound battery energy storage system (BESS) facilities being built...
UrbanChain powers Shoreham Port as major UK port accelerates journey to meet 2035 clean...
UrbanChain has secured a new agreement with Shoreham Port, on the South Coast of England, and is now supplying electricity to the Port’s operations...
Wood Mackenzie: four-hour battery storage now beats gas peaking on cost globally
Wood Mackenzie’s latest global report on levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) shows that advancing technologies and market dynamics continue to drive divergent prices, with...
Centrica Energy, Covenergo and Delta Capacity sign a partial Tolling agreement for AKKU One...
Centrica Energy, Covenergo and Delta Capacity have signed a partial tolling agreement for AKKU One, a 125MW/300 MWh standalone battery energy storage system (BESS)...
Wärtsilä and RCT Solutions launch Valo, a new energy storage integrator with 20GWh on...
Technology group Wärtsilä and RCT Solutions has launched Valo, a global battery energy storage system integrator designed to help customers navigate the growing complexity...
Greenvolt and Statkraft sign agreement for the management of 400MW of battery storage in...
Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy and a leading PPA provider in Europe, and Greenvolt Power, a global utility-scale developer of onshore wind, solar and...
Saint-Gobain signs renewable electricity purchase agreement in the United Kingdom
Saint-Gobain has signed a renewable electricity purchase agreement with TotalEnergies for 60GWh per year to supply the Group’s industrial sites in the United Kingdom....
Greenvolt begins construction of one of Europe’s largest battery energy storage projects
Greenvolt Group, through Greenvolt Power, its utility-scale renewable energy business, has started construction of the 600MW/2.4GWh Siedlce battery energy storage system (BESS) in Poland....
Multi-megawatt-hour commercial order to supply lithium-free storage
EnerVenue has signed its first multi-megawatt-hour commercial order. Twenty-six Energy Prism containerised storage units, with a combined capacity of 11 MWh, will be installed...
Canary Wharf signs 10-year solar PPA covering 40% of electricity demand
Canary Wharf Group (CWG) has partnered with ENGIE in the UK and British Solar Renewables (BSR) for a 10-year power purchase agreement (PPA) –...
Why flexibility will break through Europe’s gridlock
Alan Dunne, managing director at Aggreko UK and Ireland, explains the roles of flexibility and digitalisation in breaking through Europe’s utilities gridlock.
Europe is inching...
‘Cost peak shock’: new analysis urges businesses to brace for biggest energy cost surge...
Businesses are calling on the UK government to reconsider its Clean Power 2030 target due to concerns about the cost impact of delivering the...
Yorkshire Cricket and UrbanChain partner to power Headingley with renewable energy
Yorkshire County Cricket Club has agreed a new commercial partnership with the clean energy technology company UrbanChain, which will see Headingley powered by 100%...
The UK commercial energy market: Where things stand currently
For business energy buyers, the past few weeks have delivered a clearer signal that markets often provide. This is a winter repricing, not a...