Ovo aims to unlock 12GW of flex from domestic storage heaters
Energy company Ovo, recipient of a £216m investment from Mitsubishi Corporation, plans to unlock the flexibility of the UK’s 1.7 million homes with electric...
Terre and BM: Elexon opens market entry process for aggregators
Elexon has opened the market entry process for aggregators that want to play in the balancing market without a supply licence as well as...
RedT launches strategic review and fundraise, shares dive
AIM-listed energy storage company, RedT, has announced a strategic review and fundraising in order to secure working capital.
It has issued a conditional £940,000 placing...
EDF and Upside to trade flex from Anesco’s Clayhill solar-storage farm
EDF Energy and technology partner Upside Energy will trade the power from Anesco’s 16MW Clayhill solar-storage farm.
Terms of the deal include EDF providing a...
National Grid uses more Stor and frequency response, flags challenges ahead
National Grid’s annual Power Responsive report shows the electricity system operator used an increasing amount of demand-side response in 2018.
However, greater competition in services...
Flexitricity to trade flex from 19.5MW Anesco battery
Flexitricity will trade flex from Anesco's 19.5MW Larport Farm battery after the two firms struck a deal.
The aggregator and supplier will bid its power...
Anesco and WPD strike flexible capacity agreement for battery
Anesco and Western Power Distribution have struck a flexible capacity agreement that they claim is the first of its kind.
Anesco said the arrangement, which...
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...
Demand-side response: Charging reform ‘key to unlocking DNO flex’
In attempting to create flexibility markets, distribution network operators are doing what is in their power, says Graham Oakes, former chief scientist and co-founder...
Do DSR providers want 15-year Capacity Market contracts? We asked them
A straw poll of 'end user' demand-side response providers suggests that the majority would at least consider bidding for 15-year contracts within the Capacity...
RedT says new funds by Christmas or it will cease trading
Vanadium flow storage firm "confident" in securing funds and touts "strong" strategic investor in the wings, but warns clock is ticking.
Flow storage company RedT...
Project Terre: What’s it worth?
Wider access to the Balancing Mechanism and the launch of the European replacement reserve market (Terre), will provide new routes to market for demand-side...
Kiwi Power adds 15MW of battery storage, 80MW by year end
Kiwi Power has added 15MW of battery storage to its management portfolio.
The aggregator has signed an optimisation agreement with Gresham House New Energy for...
National Grid outlines plans to buy more inertia
National Grid plans to launch a tender for new inertia services next month for delivery from April.
Electricity system operator director, Fintan Slye, recently suggested...
Capacity Market cleared
The Capacity Market will soon be back in play after the European Commission approved it. Energy companies with agreements are looking forward to getting...
Gresham House Energy Storage raises £31 million to buy big batteries
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund has tapped backers for a further £31 million to expand its utility-scale battery fleet.
It will use the money to...
To Invinity and beyond: RedT and Avalon merger set to complete
Vanadium redox flow storage companies RedT and Avalon have agreed to complete their merger, subject to shareholder consent. The combined business will be called...
Coronavirus: GridBeyond urges DSR providers to notify of demand changes
GridBeyond has urged industrial and commercial firms that provide demand-side response (DSR) services to notify aggregators of changes to predicted consumption patterns.
As businesses shut...
Avalon founder: Flow storage ‘can be much cheaper than lithium’
Avalon president Matt Harper believes vanadium-based energy storage can be cheaper than lithium. On a whole life basis, he claims it already is.
US-based Avalon...
WPD buys 95MW of flex, eyes hundreds more megawatts
Western Power Distribution has awarded flexibility contracts totalling 94.8MW following its fourth procurement round.
Although less than the volume originally sought, the distribution network operator...