Why more firms are obtaining electricity supply licences
Consultant Jo Butlin believes a push to obtain electricity supply licences by aggregators, local authorities and renewable generators is set to continue as they try to...
Crown Commercial Service selects six suppliers for three year demand-side response framework
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has given the green light for public sector procurement of demand-side response (DSR) services from six providers.
Centrica, EDF, Endeco,...
Reactive Technologies: UK system inertia measured for first time
Energy tech firm Reactive Technologies has measured UK system-wide inertia. The data, verified by National Grid, is believed to be a world first.
'Inertia' is...
National Grid to bring wind and solar into FFR, details balancing services overhaul
National Grid is working with platform providers in a bid to allow non-dispatchable sources of generation such as wind and solar into frequency response.
The...
Swindon Council gets planning consent for 50MW battery storage scheme, seeks developers
Swindon Council has been given the green light from its planning department to build a 50MW/50MWh battery storage scheme.
The scheme, on council owned ground,...
WPD expands DSR programme, launches tenders across Midlands and South West
Western Power Distribution is launching a tender for more demand-side response (DSR) to help balance its networks.
The company began a flexibility trial in the...
Ofgem rejects UK Power Reserve’s bid for change in balancing services
Ofgem has rejected a call from UK Power Reserve to change balancing services rules.
The peaking plant firm, now owned by Sembcorp, wanted to stop...
Beis, the ADE, GridBeyond and Eurac explore market reforms and DSR
Representatives from the Association of Decentralised Energy (ADE) and the government’s department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis) visited Eurac, a European foundry...
Government and industry move to restart Capacity Market payment collection
Government and industry are making moves to restart collection of Capacity Market payments from suppliers.
The market is suspended following a legal challenge by Tempus...
Statkraft and RedT strike solar-storage deal
Statkraft and RedT have agreed terms on a commercial partnership to deploy and fund solar PV and energy storage units at industrial and commercial...
National Grid models big DSR and storage increases
National Grid’s latest energy scenario modelling suggests a potential major increase in demand-side response (DSR) provided by UK businesses.
The electricity system operator has also...
RedT says new funds by Christmas or it will cease trading
Vanadium flow storage firm "confident" in securing funds and touts "strong" strategic investor in the wings, but warns clock is ticking.
Flow storage company RedT...
Kaluza sells flex from domestic battery storage to WPD
Ovo’s smart grid company Kaluza has sold its first batch of flexibility from aggregated household batteries to Western Power Distribution.
The batteries were automatically dispatched...
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...
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...
Tesla enters UK flex market as National Grid upgrades balancing mechanism tech
Tesla became the first party to trade flexible power in the balancing mechanism (BM) using National Grid's new control room API.
The electric carmaker, equipped...
Manufacturing commences at the ITM Power Gigafactory
ITM Power, an energy storage and clean fuel company, announces an update on the fit out and opening of the Company's first Gigafactory at...
Power technology trends for 2019
Power Control’s director, Rob Mather, explores some power technology trends for 2019, aimed at driving energy efficiency and improving resilience...
The need to balance resilience,...
50MW transmission-connected battery activated in Oxford
Pivot Power, part of EDF Renewables, Wärtsilä and Habitat Energy, activated the UK’s first grid-scale battery storage system directly connected to the transmission-network as...
Norwegians eye England’s East Coast for 2 solar projects, plus battery
Norway’s state-owned renewables generator Statkraft is seeking planners’ permission to develop two solar parks in Yorkshire and Suffolk. A combined investment in excess of...