Gore Street Energy Storage Fund set for 160MW storage deal
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund is to take a controlling stake in a portfolio of 160MW of storage in Northern Ireland and the Republic....
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...
Who would be a gas generator? Fewer and fewer companies is my guess
New Power editor Janet Wood thinks National Grid may have put another nail in gas's coffin
Who would be a gas generator? Despite the ejection...
UK Power Networks spends £450k on 18MW of flex
UK Power Networks has offered contracts worth £450,000 for 18MW of flexibility. Six companies made successful bids and will now need to install generation...
ADE launches Flex Assure scheme for demand-side response aggregators
The Association for Decentralised Energy has launched an assurance scheme in a bid to improve market transparency and trust in demand-side response (DSR).
The scheme...
Energy being wasted by ageing transformer assets
Erika Wilson, from Wilson Power, believes there will be significant opportunities around the STOR markets and renewables in 2019, while the company is also...
Potential for micro-grids to increase resilience in an uncertain energy landscape
The rise of virtual power plants will be a key trend in 2019, according to ABB’s Sagnik Murthy. Speaking at The Energyst Event, he...
Changing energy mix driving demand for DSR
GridBeyond's UK managing director Wayne Muncaster is urging large energy users to increase their participation in demand-side response (DSR).
"There are huge opportunities for commercial...
Enel X takes lion’s share of Ireland’s capacity market DSR
Enel X has won 218MW of Ireland’s demand-side response capacity market agreements for delivery in 2022-23.
The company said it is its largest win to...
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...
Statkraft: When is a VPP not a VPP?
State-owned Statkraft is building a big stake in the UK flexibility market. It aims to bring businesses into its AI-driven virtual power plant and...
Power technology trends for 2019
Power Control’s director, Rob Mather, explores some power technology trends for 2019, aimed at driving energy efficiency and improving resilience...
The need to balance resilience,...
Energy storage firm RedT raises £3.2m
RedT the AIM-listed company attempting to scale its vanadium redox flow storage technology has raised £3.2m.
The company announced the fundraise last month via...
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...
Government details next steps for summer Capacity Market auction
Government has detailed its plans for a T-1 Capacity Market auction for delivery over the coming winter.
It aims to hold an auction by August...
Modelling battery storage – what went wrong?
Regardless of your position on storage, it is fairly uncontroversial to admit we have recently experienced a bubble in storage investment that has somewhat...
National Grid says it can go 100% renewables by 2025
National Grid ESO believes it will be able to operate the power system with 100% renewable power - for periods at least - by...
National Grid ESO mulls 10-year contracts for reactive power
National Grid ESO has sent out a request for information to potential providers of reactive power services in the Mersey area.
National Grid uses reactive power services to manage...
WPD’s 93MW demand-side response tender now open
Western Power Distribution (WPD) opened its demand-side response tender window last week.
The company aims to procure 93.4MW of DSR services in 12 areas across...
SSEN to deploy flex across entire network – down to households and EVs
Scottish & Southern Energy Networks has agreed to procure flexibility and demand-side response services across its entire network, rather than just constrained areas, which...