Gore Street chooses EDF to run British third battery

Energy investment innovators Gore Street Energy Storage Fund have chosen French-owned EDF to optimise clean power trades from its new 80MW battery. Located at Stony,...

World’s biggest ohm game near Old Trafford: Manchester nets globe’s biggest grid-scale battery

Energy infrastructure developer Carlton Power this morning announced it has won planning approval to install the world’s biggest known electricity storage device on a...

Ecotricity to launch UK’s first electric airline, but with kerosene fuelling early flights

High profile green industrialist Dale Vince, pictured, is to launch what he intends to become the UK’s first all-electric airline. Ecotricity, Vince’s 28-year old low...

NG zooms for industry views to speed renewables hook-ups

National Grid ESO has opened its latest round of consultation events, aimed at tapping industry wisdom to speed up connections for new renewables generators. Over...

Cero and Enso agree financing on 50MW battery for Larks Green

The developers of Britain’s first solar farm now generating directly into the nation’s transmission network have agreed financial terms to add a 49.9MW battery...

Ferrybridge to house SSE Renewables’ second grid-scale battery

Energy supplier SSE Renewables has announced its second former coal-fired power station site at Ferrybridge, west Yorkshire, will house a 150MW grid-scale battery. The...

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...

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...

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

The fund thinks it is on course to be operating 1 GW of heavy duty batteries this year and 1.5 GW next. Net asset value...

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...

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...

Ground is being broken at Blackhillock, between Aberdeen & Inverness, to deliver the first 200MW of a planned 300MW storage project.  Zenobē say it’s...