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...
“Good I – for amps -, son?” Bluefield pays £1.5 million for battery project...
The closed end fund today announced it has bought development rights, grid connection costs and leasehold rights for a 20MW storage project, due to...
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 £...
“Magnetisable concrete” trialled for non-stop charging of EVs
The adapted concrete has a high magnetic permeability, thus lending itself to inductive charging as a vehicle passes above. It would open the way...
Carlton Power and Stag Energy merge to deliver infrastructure wizardry
Two of Britain’s longest established developers of energy infrastructure are joining up. Ending three decades of independence, Carlton Power and Stag Energy today plight...
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...
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
The Edinburgh-based weight droppers kicked off this year by unveiling their FlexiStore hydrogen storage technology as a new product alongside their existing gravity-based technologies.
The...
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
Founded only five years ago, the London-based operator says its 235MW of grid-connected batteries in the UK contributes to its status as the largest...
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...
British Lithium extracts ‘pilot quantity’ lithium from Cornwall
Rocks under Britain’s west country have yielded up the first ore for a pioneering venture to home-source battery grade lithium. British Lithium Limited believes...
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.
RPC’s...
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%...