Longer life batteries mean Balancing Mechanism and Capacity Market set to ‘power up’ reliable...
New analysis from LCP’s Energy Analytics team highlights the growing opportunity for batteries to play both a larger role in the UK energy system’s...
Cremz! Gore Street plugs into its first battery in continental Europe
First-moving energy storage fund Gore Street today extended its portfolio of amp hotels and coulomb crèches beyond the British Isles, buying 90% of an...
D-BEIS primes first wave of LDES projects with £6.7 million
Two dozen hopeful ventures in energy storage are to benefit from competition prizes worth £6.7 million.
Energy ministry D-BEIS confirmed the wins yesterday across competing...
Octopus’ KrakenFlex stretches leg into Hydro REIN tie-up
KrakenFlex, Octopus Energy’s flexibility platform driving its international expansion into support services, has struck a deal in Canada, likely to run on into three...
Eelpower and Habitat agree optimisation deal for 100MW of storage
Energy storage firm Eelpower has signed a three-year deal for battery optimisation with Habitat Energy, covering two 50MW storage projects.
Due for location at Fordtown...
Western Power debuts ‘first of a kind’ flex marketplace for smaller assets
Britain’s biggest distributed network operator today reaches out to small owners of storage assets, launching its platform to trade flex capacity and set prices...
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...
Norwegians eye England’s East Coast for 2 solar projects, plus battery
Norway’s state-owned renewables generator Statkraft is seeking planners’ permission to develop two solar parks in Yorkshire and Suffolk. A combined investment in excess of...
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 £...
Electrifying performance: Berlin’s Olympic Stadium to get solar PV
The Olympic athletics track on which legendary sprinter Jesse Owens defied Nazi racism in 1936 is soon to be further enhanced, being overlooked with...
Half night, half day: WPD’s Equinox prizes flex uses of low carbon pumps in...
Britain’s biggest distributed network operator is pumping over £15m into unlocking the flexibility offered by low carbon residential home heat. Ground- or air-sourced pumps...
“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...
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...
Ofgem warns Balancing Mechanism players
Rocketing costs of last-minute interventions needed to balance Britain’s power grid have prompted an Ofgem warning that it stands ready to tighten market rules...
At 360 MW, Teesside primed to host Europe’s biggest battery
The North-east industrial cluster of Teesside is set to be the location for a planned 360 MW battery storage system, billed as Europe's largest.
Sembcorp...
Staunch greenwash sleaze? Track carbon through grid in real time, say Elexon and ES...
Restoring integrity to tarnished "clean power" certificates can be best guaranteed with new rules and new tech, tracking carbon from seed to flower through...
National Grid ESO to digitise Britain’s energy system and advance the transition to net...
National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) has launched, in what it claims is a world-first, a programme to build a digital replica of the...