8MWh from a 50-tonne drop? Weighty matters for storage innovators Gravitricity
Scotland’s gravity battery pioneers Gravitricity believe the recent grid connection of their pilot plant in Edinburgh’s port will give a new meaning to the...
Coutinho: New unabated gas ‘needed beyond 2030’; REMA needs local pricing
Energy secretary Clare Coutinho today pledged to build new CCGT power stations as replacements for ageing gas generators. The new plant, Coutinho accepts, is...
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...
Europe’s first lithium processing plant progresses on Teesside
Plans are advancing at Britain’s biggest new freeport to open Europe’s first sustainable plant making lithium hydroxide for batteries.
Tees Valley Lithium, a wholly-owned subsidiary...
Power prices soar as National Grid issues capacity market notice
Within day power prices today soared above £300 per megawatt hour within minutes of National Grid issuing a Capacity Market Notice.
At around 1pm, the...
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...
Shell buys DSR aggregator Limejump
Shell is to buy virtual power plant firm Limejump. The move follows Shell's recent acquisition of home battery storage firm Sonnen.
Shell, which sells energy directly...
Fire at Ørsted’s 20MW Carnegie Road battery storage site
Firefighters last night had to extinguish a blaze at Ørsted's 20MW battery storage scheme at Carnegie Road, Liverpool.
The Danish firm commissioned the site, it's...
Moixa acquired by Lunar Energy
Moixa announced today it has been acquired by newly launched Lunar Energy, a US-based company with a mission to electrify the home and provide...
Octopus’ KrakenFlex stretches leg into Hydro REIN tie-up
KrakenFlex, Octopus Energy’s flexibility platform driving its international expansion into support services, has struck a deal in Canada, likely to run on into three...
Proposed acquisition of Western Power Distribution and strategic portfolio repositioning
National Grid plc today announces that it has agreed to acquire PPL WPD Investments Limited, the holding company of Western Power Distribution (WPD), 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...
Farmers offered grants for 40% of cost of battery storage systems
Farmers are being offered government grants that enable them to claim up to 40% of the cost of a battery storage system.
They can also...
Highview Power begins work on long duration liquid air energy storage facility in Manchester
Highview Power in partnership with Carlton Power, announced today that it is beginning the execution process on a 50 MW liquid air energy storage...
National Grid outlines future of frequency response
National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) has outlined the future of frequency response and reserve procurement as it bids to keep an increasingly renewables-driven...
JLL advises INRG on the sale of Little Crow to British Solar Renewables
NRG has successfully divested Little Crow, a 150MWp solar photovoltaic (PV) project co-located with a 60MW battery energy storage system (BESS), to British Solar...
CMA formally approves National Grid’s purchase of WPD
National Grid’s £7.8 billion acquisition of Britain’s largest electricity distribution business has won formal approval from the competition watchdog.
The Competition and Markets Authority announced...
Peaking blinder! Huge Hams Hall h-“amp hotel” approved near M6 toll; up to 1,750...
Future extension to around 1,750 MWh in total capacity is included in approval granted for the Hams Hall location.
With partners Luminous Energy, the Clapham-based...
My work here is done: Limejump CEO Erik Nygard exits
Limejump CEO Erik Nygard will leave the aggregator in September with new COO Catherine Newman to take the reins on an interim basis.
Nygard led...
National Grid says it can go 100% renewables by 2025
National Grid ESO believes it will be able to operate the power system with 100% renewable power - for periods at least - by...