Masdar chooses Octopus’s Kraken to run £1 billion UK storage deal
Global green power developer Masdar has chosen Octopus Energy’s Kraken platform to manage its £1 billion investment in grid-scale batteries in the UK.
The deal...
Grid celebrates 1.6 million flex players, preps for more
As many as 1.6 million homes and businesses took part in Britain’s biggest exercise to date in flexibility shifting of peak power load, the...
Grid Instability jeopardises energy security for data centres
A new research report has mapped out temporary opportunities for facility stakeholders in major European data centre markets to maintain site resilience in a...
Top to toe: SSEN seeks flex contracts covering 15 zones
Distribution network operator SSEN is seeking partners offering flex services across fifteen zones, in areas spanning the Highlands and southern England as far north...
Battery gunk recycler scores CAM first
A battery recycling start-up is claiming a UK first, announcing today that it has isolated a key component to make new lithium-ion batteries from...
Ovo’s demand shifting trial rewards customers with £150k
Electricity supplier Ovo Energy paid out nearly £150k over the winter to customers opting to switch their times of consumption.
Power Move, the challenger retailer’s...
Government backs three long-duration battery start ups with £30 million
Whitehall officials are stumping up £30 million in public support for a trio of UK battery innovators seeking to deploy longer-term power storage for...
UK’s biggest li-ion recycling plant set to open “within weeks”
Britain’s biggest facility for recycling lithium from batteries along with associated cobalt, manganese and & nickel, moved closer to reality today, as the Environment...
Penso gets planners’ approval for 100 MW/250 MWh battery near Reading
Grid-scale storage pioneers Penso Power have won their 18-month appeal to build a 100MW-rated battery facility in rural Hampshire.
Accommodated close to Bramley, 12 miles...
VAT-exempt batteries: Solar industry hails Budget breakthrough
Leaders of the UK’s thousands of solar installers were today hailing a rare lobbying win conceded by the Treasury.
Among measures related to the spring...
Battery investors Gresham House charge up 20% full year growth
Full year results from Britain’s biggest investment fund specialising in grid scale storage saw Gresham House surge over 20% in net asset value.
The fund...
CCUS “backed by government’s £20 billion” to head Hunt’s energy Budget, Treasury briefs
Twenty-year Government incentives promoting carbon capture use and storage (CCUS) will reportedly headline benefits to the energy sector in Jeremy Hunt’s Budget on Wednesday.
The...
Axpo to build battery storage in Sweden
In the latest expansion of its battery storage capacity, Axpo will build a 20MW/20MWh facility in Sweden to deliver services to the grid in...
Local energy systems need radical system overhaul, says Ofgem
Ofgem is seeking consumers’ & suppliers’ views on next steps needed to embed a more decentralised, decarbonised and dynamic energy system for the UK.
It...
Dry cells, in the wet: seaborne battery charges beneath Orkney’s waves
An ambitious collaborative project to power subsea equipment with wave power and subsea energy storage has taken to the seas off the north of...
Harmony and Downing trumpet clean power buys
Two London-quoted investment funds were today separately celebrating new power assets joining their portfolios.
Harmony Energy Income Trust, which invests in UK battery energy storage,...
SMS to develop new Demand Side Response applications for domestic flexibility market
SMS has been awarded a new contract through the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero as part of a consortium aiming to establish...
ib vogt & financiers DIF swoop for UK’s biggest storage-and-solar portfolio
Solar farm operators ib vogt and financiers DIF Capital have signed a deal for future purchase of 720MW of consented solar PV sites, in...
Salted (sic) for Is and whizz: Mancs brave Italian brine to lift lithium
A Manchester University spin-off has signed a deal with an Italian mining company aimed at making lithium in commercial quantities.
Watercycle Technologies, a deep tech...
Investing in energy storage delivers multiple benefits for businesses
The volatile international energy markets of the last 12 months have shown us in the UK that the only way to avoid reliance on...