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...
National Grid: Two generators cause big frequency drop
Two generators tripping caused the biggest frequency drop for years, with widespread power outages as National Grid's systems disconnected demand in order to limit...
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...
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...
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...
JCG doubles investment in Highview Power’s energy storage technology
Janus Continental Group (JCG), a conglomerate with businesses in the Energy, Hospitality and Real Estate sectors across three continents, has announced that it has made a...
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...
Statera Energy reaches Financial Close on £395 million debt financing platform for Thurrock Flexible...
Statera Energy, the UK-based energy storage and flexible generation developer and operator, has secured a total of £395 million of debt financing for its...
600MWh: Statera plans UK’s biggest battery at Thurrock
Statera-owned Thurrock Power is planning to build the UK’s largest battery as part of a hybrid 750MW power plant.
According to documents lodged with the...
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...
Ofgem bids to equal up licence terms for restoration and balancing
Licence changes are now being sought by Ofgem, aimed at raising standards for grid restoration services to the level of norms which already govern...
Tesla granted electricity generation licence ahead of VPP push
Tesla Motors has been granted a UK electricity generation licence enabling it to further local ambitions as an energy business.
The electric carmaker is planning...
Alpiq sells Flexitricity for £15m
Swiss utility Alpiq has sold aggregator Flexitricity to Reserve Power Holdings in a share sale agreement worth around £15m.
The Edinburgh-based firm, one of the...
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...
Black & Veatch appointed as Owner’s Engineer for Eccles Battery Storage Project in Scotland
Black & Veatch, a Glasgow based energy, procurement and engineering company has been appointed by Matrix Renewables as Owner’s Engineer for a major Battery...
Blackouts: What happened and what are the implications?
Last Friday’s demand disconnection event or blackout was the result of a relatively rare event with two large power generation units disconnecting from the...
Statera Energy acquires one of the UK’s largest battery energy storage sites
Statera Energy has acquired a Greater Manchester-based 680MW/1360MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) site from Carlton Power. Located on Trafford Low Carbon Energy Park,...
“Knowing storage, knowing you, a-Ha!” North Norfolk to host digital solution
The fund is set to plug 6MW/12 MWh of storage into one of its 91 UK solar parks, this one deep in the heritage...
Hadrian’s wally: B6 boundary implicated in <£1 Bn curtailment waste, says battery firm
Faster deployment of grid-scale proven battery technology could spare Britain’s power consumers over £730 million in curtailment fees wasted annually in temporarily disconnecting Scotland’s...
Capacity market clears at £6.44, lowest yet
The latest capacity market (CM) auction for delivery over winter 2022/23 has cleared at £6.44 per kilowatt per year, the lowest outturn since the...