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,...
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...
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...
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...
Zenobē signs Stateside deal with Japanese partner
Battery storage specialist Zenobē is eying expansion in the USA, via a foothold in the north east about to be secured with a Japanese...
Planners green-light Britain’s biggest battery, and first CCUS plant in Lincs
Innovative generation projects on opposite sides of Britain have this week received planning approval, speeding innovation in the nation’s dispersal and deployment of practical...
Yorkshire at The Heart of Europe’s Largest Battery Energy Storage System
Transformers manufactured by a Leeds firm are playing a critical role in Europe’s largest battery energy storage system (BESS) by megawatt hours, which has...
Bring us 1 GW of European batteries, sing duetting RPC and Eelpower
A Europe-facing investment fund already a quarter of the way to its target of 1GW of grid-scale power storage made its market debut today.
London-based...
The Long-Term solution to our energy crisis is long-duration energy storage
The UK’s reliance on gas
British reliance on volatile international gas markets has come into sharp focus. Spikes in energy costs led to Ofgem’s 80%...
Four big battery plants to ease Scotland’s clean transmssion
Over 1GW of new power storage was announced this morning for Scotland's transmission grid.
Innovators Xenobe revealed plans for three amp hotels with a combined...