Majority of UK manufacturers prioritising flexible energy models in post-pandemic recovery
Manufacturing businesses are heavily focussed on flexible generation and distribution alongside decarbonisation of their energy use in the wake of the pandemic. This is...
National Grid’s purchase of WPD faces probe by competition regulator
The National Grid’s £7.8 billion intended purchase of Western Power Distribution, the regional DNO, is to be investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority.
As...
“What’s that, Skippy? You’ve bought 187MW of batteries in Scotland & Southern England? So...
Once epitomised by marketers as a toy rabbit playing a drum, enduring battery power became linked today - at UK grid scale at least...
50MW transmission-connected battery activated in Oxford
Pivot Power, part of EDF Renewables, Wärtsilä and Habitat Energy, activated the UK’s first grid-scale battery storage system directly connected to the transmission-network as...
Power Potential pilot plots path to pots of plenty, practitioners posit
Nine months of ‘world’s first’ trials into reactive power point the way to a potential £100 million market across the UK, National Grid ESO...
Brixton energy group innovates local flex services with EDF & UKPN
Community energy activists in south London have teamed up with two power behemoths to innovate power flexibility at the neighbourhood-level local.
A co-operatively-funded,-owned and-managed 37kWp...
CrowdFlex pilot to assess flex upside across 25,000 homes. Meanwhile, Pure Planet goes Tribe-all
Britain’s biggest ever study of managing home power flexibility debuts next month, instigated by leading energy super-brands.
Covering upwards of 25,000 homes, the CrowdFlex experiment...
Scottish & Southern’s DNO promises £4.8 billion by 2028 towards Net Zero
Distributor and transmission operator SSEN today pledged £4.8 Billion of grid improvements by 2028, to prep its networks for bi-directionality, flex and Net Zero.
Connecting...
Three more DNOs name their numbers to meet RIIO-ED2 grid upgrades
Accompanying SSEN’s five-year grid expansion plans unveiled yesterday, three additional DNOs have published their draft submissions to Ofgem.
Western Power Distribution trumps SSEN’s...
Investors GLIL pledge £150m to ion Ventures for big batteries
International clean tech developer ion Ventures has accepted up to £150 million for committing its UK energy projects to a partnership with GLIL Infrastructure...
Shell shells out for flex trades from Europe’s first centurion battery
Doubling up storage capacity in a Wiltshire village to make Europe’s first 100 MW battery storage system is about to pay off, Shell Energy...
National Grid-ESO to be replaced by ‘more independent’ operator of Britain’s grid
Critics of the National Grid’s ambivalent ‘running with the fox, while hunting with the hounds’ status were vindicated today, as Beis ministers floated their...
BEIS & Ofgem unveil blueprints on energy digitalisation, flex and smart systems
Future rules governing the most radical re-shaping ever of Britain’s energy systems are outlined in Whitehall proposals just released.
Emerging out of directions set in...
Oil giant BP buys Open Energi, flexes deeper into electricity trading
BP corralled yet another clean electricity innovator into its kraal today, paying an undisclosed sum to acquire flex and DSR provider Open Energi.
Open Energi...
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...
Arenko signs new contract to provide UK trading services to Vattenfall Wind Power Limited
Arenko has signed a trading optimisation services agreement with Vattenfall's Pen y Cymoedd 228MW Wind Farm, co-located with battery in South Wales.
Vattenfall’s 22MW was the first in...
Government seeks answers on Capacity Market’s future
Beis is opening a debate on the future of the Capacity Market, inviting views on its early alignment with Net Zero, and more fundamentally...
ENA: Seven months of Flex trading equals hooking ‘half a Hinckley Point C’ to...
The first seven months of this year have seen grid flexibility contracts and smart energy deals outpacing all of 2020’s transactions by 45% in...
Reactive Technologies on $15 million expansion trail, as it preps National Grid delivery
Grid technology innovators Reactive Technologies have raised $15 million from investors to fund expansion.
Based in London and in Oulu, Finland, the company devises data...
WPD champions home flex to uncork Net Zero bottlenecks
Western Power Distribution is bidding to incentivise more home-based flex services, en route to boosting the benefits of a more efficient energy system in...