Aggregate Industries first to use Open Energi’s new AI demand response platform
Aggregate Industries will be the first company to use Open Energi's new automated demand-side response platform. The aggregator claims it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to...
Government launches £7.75m domestic DSR competition
Government is inviting firms to bid for funding to develop demand-side response (DSR) at a household level.
Demand-side response will be enabled by smart meters...
Battery storage: Where’s the smart money?
Investors want to support battery storage, but there are significant challenges to negotiate. Brendan Coyne reports
As an enabler of greater renewables penetration, “storage is...
Energy storage: RedT and Centrica connect 1MWh flow machines in Cornwall
Energy storage firm RedT has connected 1MWh of flow machines to the grid as part of its project with Centrica in North Cornwall.
The company...
Eelpower commissions 10MW battery storage plant, plans 150MW
Eelpower has commissioned its 10MW Leverton battery storage facility near Lincoln. The firm has a 15-year capacity market contract starting 2020 and secured a...
Mitie chief backs smart energy to help revive fortunes
Mitie chief executive Phil Bentley says the FM firm's smart energy platform is "gaining traction" with 13 bids won in the last six months.
The...
Battery storage company lands £50m to expand 60MW portfolio, seeks I&C firms
Battery Energy Storage Solutions (BESS) has raised a £50M equity investment by a group of investors led by New York based Tiger Infrastructure Partners.
The firm...
Demand-side response: Ørsted predicts higher revenues for energy flexibility
The value of flexibility is set to rise from 2018 as power markets become more volatile and imbalance charges double, according to Ørsted’s UK...
Lord Redesdale: Idea of EVs as battery storage is “complete crap”
Energy Managers Association chief Rupert Redesdale has suggested the idea of electric vehicles acting as meaningful energy storage is “complete crap”.
Speaking at the EMA’s...
Electric vehicles ‘could provide 11GW of flexible capacity’
Electric vehicle batteries could provide 11GW of flexible capacity for the UK system by 2030, according to analysis by aggregator Open Energi.
The firm says...
Limejump raises further cash to scale flexibility platform
Virtual power plant operator and energy supplier Limejump has raised further funds to scale its operations.
The company did not disclose the exact amount raised,...
SSE and Northern Powergrid launch smart grid plans
SSE Networks has outlined proposals to transition to become a distribution system operator that procures and dispatches flexibility as part of a smarter power...
Northern Powergrid: EVs a resource, not a problem
Electric vehicles represent an opportunity for grid operators to balance networks and for their customers to earn revenue, rather than a network-busting problem, according...
Swindon Council plans 50MW battery storage plant
Swindon Borough Council has submitted a planning application for a battery storage facility with a capacity of up to 50MW/50MWh.
If consented, it would enable...
WPD rethinks demand-side response plans, relaunches Flexible Power platform
Western Power Distribution has redesigned its demand-side response platform and is calling for businesses within its East Midlands network to consider selling their flexible...
Electricity networks to speed up connections, commit to local flexibility markets
UK distribution network operators (DNOs) have reiterated their collective commitment to enabling local flexibility markets, or smart grids, as part of a roadmap published...
Solar developers get green light for 10MW battery storage scheme in Perthshire
Distributed energy firm Capbal has secured planning consent from Perth & Kinross Council for its first 10MW/5MWh battery storage unit in Scotland.
The Braco project...
Aggregator Flexitricity to become energy supplier, eyes balancing mechanism prize
Aggregator Flexitricity plans to become an energy supplier from mid-2018. The firm has applied for a supply licence and will target specific customers ahead...
Blockchain: Epex Spot and LO3 Energy strike deal to connect microgrids with wholesale markets
European power exchange Epex Sot has signed a memorandum of understanding with Brooklyn-based energy technology firm LO3 Energy with the aim of connecting microgrids...
Medium Combustion Plant Directive takes back-up generators out of DSR
New emissions regulation will prevent thermal back-up generators from participating in demand-side response (DSR).
Defra laid draft Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) legislation this week....