Li-ion offers new opportunities for data centres

A new white paper says that the falling cost of lithium-ion batteries is enabling data centre operators to review their electrical distribution topology and...

New conduct code to build trust in demand-side response

The Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE) has launched a new compliance initiative that will make it easier for businesses to participate in demand-side response...

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...

The Energyst – Latest issue out now

The latest edition of The Energyst is now ready to read today online or via the new Energyst App. The Energyst is now published monthly,...

World’s first sustainable plant to separate rare earth oxides is projected for Humber estuary

A factory designed for sustainable recovery of scarce minerals essential to making batteries for EVs and wind turbines is being proposed in Britain’s booming...

Battery barons Gresham House snap up 30MW of Scots storage, expands fleet to 425MW

Britain’s biggest investor in utility-scale batteries Gresham House Energy Storage Fund (GHESF) today announced its first buy in Scotland, paying £15.6m from its subsidiary...

MAN Energy Solutions to partner on world’s largest liquid-air energy-storage project

The liquid air energy storage plant uses cryogenically-liquefied air as a medium for storing energy. It is especially suitable for special applications that require...

8MWh from a 50-tonne drop?  Weighty matters for storage innovators Gravitricity

Scotland’s gravity battery pioneers Gravitricity believe the  recent grid connection of their pilot plant in Edinburgh’s port will give a new meaning to the...

Investors back Gore Street Energy Storage with £135 million to build out its 1.3GW...

Energy storage fund Gore Street has succeeded in tapping its investors for new equity needed to build out its 1.3GW pipeline of projects. The possible...

Miner Corcel digs deep to store power and sell value on Britain’s grid  

Corcel, AIM-listed since 2005, is an interesting example of a niche international mining company expanding beyond its core business into grid-scale power storage.  For...

National Grid awards eight more ‘black start’ contracts

National Grid ESO has awarded contracts to eight further providers for Electricity System Restoration Services (ESRS) in the North west, North east and Scotland....

Aspirant reserve power supplier Mast hoists sail, prepares to plug in

Would-be grid backup supplier Mast Energy Developments, fresh from raising £23 million from last month’s successful flotation on the LSE, yesterday briefed investors on...

Open those SmartValves: National Grid ET trials power-flow-routing app, in quest of extra 1.5GW

Britain’s core transmission operator is seeking to liberate an extra 1.5GW of capacity, using software to by-pass choke points, avoiding big outlays on location-specific...

Costly keys to the highway give Scots the faraway blues, as genco seek overhaul...

Transmission operator Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks says customer support is overwhelming for Ofgem to re-balance fees for access to UK-wide grids. As currently framed,...

Megawatt Ton for RES, top-scoring its century battery in Yorkshire

Clean storage developer RES Group has been given planners’ go-ahead to install its biggest battery yet. The Hertfordshire-headquartered firm’s planned 99.9MW installation received approval this week...

Foresight’s 50MW Dundee battery to be balanced by Flexitricity

Scheduled to begin operations before next March, the storage installation will draw revenues from the National Grid’s Balancing Mechanism, providing stabilisation and demand management...

National Grid boosts UK power capex by 3%, but continues retreat from gas

National Grid increased spending on UK backbone electricity transmission last year by 3% to £1.072 Billion, its results for the year to March published...

The Energyst – Latest issue out now

The latest edition of The Energyst is now ready to read today online or via the new Energyst App. The Energyst is now published monthly,...

Sussex energy co-op BHESCO plugs in to Moixa

Storage innovators Moixa are plugging into a Sussex energy co-operative, launching a pilot Virtual Power Plant (VPP) to cut DNO costs. Via social enterprise Brighton...

Technologies evolving in the stationary storage market

The stationary energy storage market is growing fast, both Front-of-the-Meter (FTM) and Behind-the-Meter (BTM), with the market size expected to be tens of billions by...