Smart grids, flexibility and connections: What can your DNO do for you?
Energy network operators seek views on their plans to develop a smarter grid.
Industry body, the Energy Networks Association, has mapped out its programme of...
Arenko and GE build 41MW battery in the Midlands
Battery storage operator and developer Arenko will have a 41MW project up and running this year after striking a deal with GE.
GE will supply...
Aggregator Endeco changes name to Gridbeyond
UK and Ireland-based aggregator Endeco is rebranding to Gridbeyond. The firm says the name more accurately reflects its offering in a rapidly changing market.
Demand-side...
Report: Bring big firms into balancing services and let them buy overseas power
A report by respected academics has urged government to make it easier for UK industry to provide grid balancing services and to allow them...
National Grid focuses on bringing smaller firms, EVs and households into flexibility
National Grid will start to focus more keenly on bringing smaller businesses, electric vehicles and households into demand-side response this year.
The System Operator outlined...
Capacity market outturn a turn off for batteries
A capacity market price of £8.40/kW in the T-4 auctions is bad news for UK battery storage developers.
Significant volumes of battery storage prequalified for...
Flexitricity inks DSR deal with Ameresco
Ameresco has partnered with Flexitricity to provide demand side response (DSR) services to its industrial and commercial customers in the UK and Europe.
It...
Octopus Energy launches time of use tariff, targets businesses as well as households
Octopus Energy has launched a time of use tariff that will pay customers to use electricity when there is too much power on the...
Smartest Energy to use Origami’s flexibility platform to optimise DSR revenues
Smartest Energy will use Origami Energy’s technology platform to manage its customers’ distributed energy assets and consumption and boost demand-side response revenues.
The deal enables...
Statkraft eyes new retail and flexibility models and plans to develop data centres
Norway’s state-owned utility Statkraft is eyeing new energy retail and distributed energy models in the UK and has plans to develop data centres, as...
Free London Seminar: How energy storage is central to decentralisation
Sponsored: On Wednesday, 21 March 2018, businesses interested in the UK’s current and future energy landscape are invited to join Powerstar in central London...
Statkraft to optimise revenues for 6MW battery in Dorking
Norway's Statkraft will optimise a 6MW/6MWh battery in Dorking for Grid Battery Storage Limited (GBSL), trading its output and managing firm frequency response services.
The...
Swindon Council gets planning consent for 50MW battery storage scheme, seeks developers
Swindon Council has been given the green light from its planning department to build a 50MW/50MWh battery storage scheme.
The scheme, on council owned ground,...
Energy storage firm RedT hires Green Investment Bank senior as finance chief
Energy storage firm RedT has hired former Green Investment Bank managing director for finance, Fraser Welham, as its chief financial officer.
The company, which makes...
Should Ofgem consider derating DSR plus battery storage? Aggregators weigh in
Ofgem is mulling a proposal by Scottish Power to further derate demand-side response (DSR) within the Capacity Market (CM) where it uses behind the...
Flexibility platform provider Origami Energy raises £18.6 million, plans to go global
Origami Energy has raised a further £18.6m, mostly from generator firm Aggreko. Other investors include Octopus Ventures, Cambridge Innovation Capital, and Fred Olsen related companies.
The...
£20m debt funding for battery storage firm Eelpower
Eelpower has secured £20m of debt funding with Gravis Capital Management to build out its battery storage pipeline.
Eelpower plans to build, own and operate...
One careful owner: 300kW battery used in innovation trials for sale
SGC seeks expressions of interest from parties interested in acquiring a containerised lithium ion phosphate battery following its use in Network Innovation Trials. A...
Former Npower chief Paul Massara takes reins at blockchain firm Electron
Paul Massara is to take the CEO role at energy blockchain firm Electron.
The former Npower chief executive joined Electron as a non-executive director last...
SSEN to trial Open Utility’s flexibility trading platform
Distribution network operator SSEN will trial Open Utility's flexibility trading platform to try and make it easier for companies to provide demand-side response, or...