Centrica sharpens EV focus
Centrica says it has created a dedicated electric vehicles team to operate across its business and consumer divisions.
The company previously had an EV Services...
Octopus Investments backs IDNO Eclipse Power
Octopus Investments will provide multimillion pound backing to independent distribution network operator Eclipse Power. The firm will use the money to expand its operation...
Small generator discount will run to 2021 in ‘final’ extension
Ofgem has confirmed it will extend the ‘small generator discount’ to 31 March 2021. It had been due to expire March 2019.
The discount given...
Cambridgeshire County Council eyes solar-storage prize at landfill sites
Cambridgeshire County Council plans to build co-located solar and battery storage on closed landfill sites and thinks it can make a 25-year net return...
New control desk doubles small flex in Balancing Mechanism, says National Grid
National Grid says the amount of flexibility from small generators, battery storage and demand side response used in the Balancing Mechanism has been boosted...
UK Power Networks puts ‘Big Battery’ up for sale
UK Power Networks has put its 'Big Battery' up for sale. The 6MW/10MWh battery was connected at Leighton Buzzard in 2014, as part of...
EVs, smart charging and vehicle-to-grid: Your views required
The Energyst is asking readers for their views on electric vehicles (EVs).
We hope to understand how public and private sector organisations perceive EVs, whether...
Piclo eyes big 2019 as DNO flex procurement deadlines loom
Deadlines for three distribution network operators' flexibility procurement programmes close in the next few weeks.
James Johnston, head of the Piclo local flexibility platform being...
Premier Inn installs battery storage, eyes more
Premier Inn has installed a 100kW/200kWh lithium ion battery at an Edinburgh hotel in a bid to work out how battery storage could help...
Government and industry move to restart Capacity Market payment collection
Government and industry are making moves to restart collection of Capacity Market payments from suppliers.
The market is suspended following a legal challenge by Tempus...
Northern Powergrid calls for demand-side response providers
Northern Powergrid has launched a call for businesses that can provide at least 100kW of flexible power to help balance its network in specific...
GridBeyond strikes DSR deal with ENW’s commercial arm
GridBeyond and Electricity North West's commercial arm will jointly market and implement demand-side response (DSR) services to some 900 large industrial and commercial companies.
ENW...
All DNOs commit to considering DSR and energy efficiency over reinforcement
The Energy Networks Association has published a commitment from all distribution network operators (DNOs) to consider demand-side response or flexibility solutions over network reinforcement...
WPD publishes daily DSR requirements
Western Power Distribution has started producing short-term forecasts of the flexible power, or demand-side response (DSR), that it plans to buy to balance parts...
Socomec provides storage solution for microgrid
NTU’s REIDS initiative is the largest microgrid R&D platform in Southeast Asia. In this sponsored post, Socomec outlines how its storage system helps underpin...
Nissan: 2019 “breakthrough year” for EVs as power plants, eyes energy supply market
Nissan sees 2019 as “a breakthrough year” for grid services via electric vehicles. The carmaker could potentially become an energy supplier soon after that.
“It...
Webinar: Terre, the balancing mechanism and virtual lead parties
National Grid and Elexon will hold a webinar next week on wider access to the balancing mechanism and project Terre.
It will outline steps for...
Co-located storage can bid into Capacity Market, Ofgem confirms
Ofgem has published new guidance for companies that want to add storage to renewable energy installations supported under the Renewables Obligation (RO) and feed-in...
Gridimp builds on small business DSR plans with latest installation
Gridimp, a start-up trying to build an artificial intelligence-driven approach to demand-side response for smaller companies, has installed its technology at the Somerset Energy...
Capacity Market top up auction planned for summer 2019
The UK government has reiterated that it hopes to re-start the Capacity Market as soon as possible and intends to run a 'top up'...