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...
Gold rush! Gore Street buys Big in California, finds amp-sheltering Rock
London-quoted investors Gore Street Energy Storage Fund are buying big into America’s grid-scale storage market, acquiring a 200 MW project to be located in...
Zenobē reaches financial close on Phase 1 of world’s first 300 MW battery hooked...
Grid storage and EV charging specialists Zenobē say they’ve fully funded the first stage of a giant grid-scale battery, under construction now in the...
Zenobē sparks up Europe’s biggest net-plugged battery, in quest of multi-million savings
Battery optimisers and traders Zenobē have begun operations at the weekend from their new 100MW installation at Capenhurst, Cheshire.
It is Europe’s biggest to be...
Recouping investment in flexible and sustainable Battery Energy Storage
Andrew Donald, Senior Business Development Manager at Powerstar, considers Future Energy Scenarios in the transition to net zero and government and investor appetite for...
VPP champ Octopus Maxes out, permits firms to spread single-site clean generation UK-wide
Green-exclusive generator Octopus Energy, Britain’s third biggest supplier, is enabling multi-site companies who self-generate their renewable power to spread it between sites, even nationwide.
The...
Aussies follow on, offering to retrieve England battery team from ashes
Administrators of collapsed battery mega-manufacturer Britishvolt think they’ve found its saviour in an Australian startup.
Founded only last year, Recharge Industries were named at the...
Lack of long-duration batteries “costs UK £60 Billion in four months”: and the Germans...
Britain’s continuing failure to store renewable electricity at scale has left the country wasting £ 60 billion on imported gas over just four months...
Czechs write cheque to buy InterGen
Independent power producing major InterGen has been sold by its parent company to Czech investors Creditas Group for an undisclosed sum.
With over 25 years’...
Faraday Challenge hands out £27.6 million to battery innovators
Projects exploring battery recycling, digital twins, new battery materials, and new manufacturing techniques have received funding from the government’s Faraday Battery Challenge.
From digital twins...
Scots hill to roar with power, as Tag tags Santander for big battery
Power storage provider TagEnergy has secured funding for its fourth amp-amungous crèche-for-coulombs in the UK, the 49.9MW/100MWh Roaring Hill development in Fife.
Santander UK are...
“Gneiss to see you!”: power storers Gravitricity ask financiers to drop in
Energy storage firm Gravitricity has appointed corporate finance specialists Gneiss Energy to spearhead a £40 million funding drive. Three demonstrator projects before 2028 are...
NG-ESO puts coal plants on standby again tonight, as suppliers prep DSR cash for...
National Grid ESO has for the second time this winter requested coal-burning power stations to be put on standby, and is asking suppliers to...
Enabling flexibility at all levels of the grid
Distributed Energy Generation (DERs) and electrification of the transport sector will result in more grid challenges at a regional and local level. The Local...
Gravitricity ponders hydrogen as “porridge” for ‘Goldilocks’ storage shafts
Inertia-based power storage pioneers Gravitricity are positing steel-lined mine shafts and rock piercings nearly 400 metres deep as storage tanks for Britain’s soon-to-be-abundant hydrogen.
The...