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...
ITM Power’s half years: Orders quadrupled, cash burn slows
Securing new contracts resulted in six-month losses for hydrogen electrolyser maker ITM Power being cut back last year on 2020’s equivalent period to £...
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...
Teralight seeks 180 MW of solar ventures in Britain
Israeli solar developer Teralight is seeking to launch in the UK, in quest of 180 MW of PV projects.
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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...
£163m Humberside factory to challenge China for magnets and rare earths recovery
Construction has begun of a pioneering British plant designed to wrest control from China of recycling valuable magnetic metals used in EVs and wind...
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...
“Good I – for amps -, son?” Bluefield pays £1.5 million for battery project...
Specialist renewables investor Bluefield Solar Income Fund has inked its first deal for a grid-scale battery not sited on a PV farm.
The closed end...
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...
Big battery pipeline “at all time high”, RenewableUK records
Britain’s ballooning pipeline of grid-scale storage projects has doubled in just twelve months to a total of 32.1GW, new figures from RenewableUK have revealed.
Utility-scale...
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...
AMTE Power selects Dundee as preferred site for battery cell factory
Battery cell manufacturer, AMTE Power, has selected Dundee as the preferred site for its first MegaFactory in a boost to the UK’s ambitions to...
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...
Triple Point Energy Efficiency Infrastructure: £108m of near-term storage secured
Green investor Triple Point Energy Efficiency Infrastructure is eying portfolio expansion of over £560 million.
In a trading statement to investors today John Roberts, chairman...
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...
Play flex markets from social housing’s storage heaters? Ofgem clears aggregators to try
Britain’s biggest home energy supplier is set to step aboard a new trial, linking flex trading to controllable storage heaters.
From September, Centrica will begin...
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...
BP to open a battery research and development centre in Britain
BP has unveiled plans to invest up to £50 million in a new EV battery testing centre and analytical laboratory in the UK.
Planned to...
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...
Cambridge Power at Brookfield’s gate, bullish on solar & 800MW of batteries
Cambridge Power Limited has signed a deal with one of the world's biggest operators of clean energy plant to develop power and battery energy...