National Grid to bring wind and solar into FFR, details balancing services overhaul
National Grid is working with platform providers in a bid to allow non-dispatchable sources of generation such as wind and solar into frequency response.
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,...
WPD expands DSR programme, launches tenders across Midlands and South West
Western Power Distribution is launching a tender for more demand-side response (DSR) to help balance its networks.
The company began a flexibility trial in the...
Northern Powergrid steps up DSR plans, joins Piclo platform
Northern Powergrid is stepping up plans to use flexibility, or demand-side response (DSR) over traditional network reinforcement and has become the latest distribution network...
Tempus Energy’s Sara Bell: DSR aggregators are ecstatic about Capacity Market ruling
Tempus Energy chief executive, Sara Bell, says demand-side response aggregators are “ecstatic” about the European Court ruling on the Capacity Market, despite fears from...
SSE Networks to bring households into demand-side response this summer
Scottish and Southern Energy Networks aims to bring households and communities into demand-side response and hopes to start procuring services this summer.
The move follows...
Isle of Man picks Vattenfall’s flex trading platform
Manx Utilities has struck a deal with Swedish energy firm Vattenfall enabling it to trade on the GB wholesale market via its flex platform.
The...
Capacity Market: Sara Bell on what happens next
Tempus Energy CEO Sara Bell says companies that hold Capacity Market agreements will know whether or not they will get paid before the year-end.
The...
Balancing market forecasting that is ‘more accurate than National Grid’
The energy market has been getting progressively more complex over the past decade with the amount of individual generation units producing power increasing, intermittency...
Compare the flex market: Piclo lands Beis funding for next phase
Piclo is preparing to launch the next phase of its flexibility platform, a genuine marketplace that enables people to bid into multiple tenders –...
Limejump adds Ylem’s 20MW Trafford peaker to virtual power plant
Shell-owned Limejump has added Ylem's new 20MW Trafford gas peaker to its virtual power plant.
Despite challenges due to coronavirus restrictions, Ylem commissioned the engines...
Ofgem tells DNOs to get on with 1MW+ asset register and plan for national...
Distribution network operators must compile a database of all assets connected to their networks above 1MW – and make them publicly available after Ofgem...
Kaluza works with Scottish wind farm to provide flexibility with new ODFM service
Kaluza, an intelligent energy platform, has begun working with Vento Ludens, owners and operators of the Muirake wind farm in Aberdeenshire, to provide a...
SMS begins construction of 90MW grid-scale battery storage projects
The two sites in Cambridgeshire and South Yorkshire will help build grid resilience and flexibility as we transition to a low-carbon energy system powered...
Smart grid evolution: potential of a dynamic capacity market
Gareth Spinner at Noveus offers an insight into the smart grid and explores some of the key issues and considerations for data centres that...
Vodafone’s 5G pilot to deliver flex signals across UKPN’s substations
An Ofgem-funded pilot now in development by mobile telco Vodafone and UK Power Networks aims to explore 5G telecommunications technology as a platform for...
Lithium for EVs “could stymie Europe’s grid storage in mid-decade”, say analysts
Europe’s and the UK’s current deployments of grid-scale power storage will leave the continent falling as much as two-thirds short of the industry’s 200GW...
Salted (sic) for Is and whizz: Mancs brave Italian brine to lift lithium
A Manchester University spin-off has signed a deal with an Italian mining company aimed at making lithium in commercial quantities.
Watercycle Technologies, a deep tech...
Teralight seeks 180 MW of solar ventures in Britain
Israeli solar developer Teralight is seeking to launch in the UK, in quest of 180 MW of PV projects.
In the second of today’s stories...
Energy Technologies Institute: Let private firms lead smartgrid trials
Private companies should be put in charge of energy innovation projects rather than energy network operators, according to the head of the Energy Technologies...