VAT-exempt batteries: Solar industry hails Budget breakthrough
Leaders of the UK’s thousands of solar installers were today hailing a rare lobbying win conceded by the Treasury.
Among measures related to the spring...
Penso gets planners’ approval for 100 MW/250 MWh battery near Reading
Grid-scale storage pioneers Penso Power have won their 18-month appeal to build a 100MW-rated battery facility in rural Hampshire.
Accommodated close to Bramley, 12 miles...
Government backs three long-duration battery start ups with £30 million
Whitehall officials are stumping up £30 million in public support for a trio of UK battery innovators seeking to deploy longer-term power storage for...
Ovo’s demand shifting trial rewards customers with £150k
Electricity supplier Ovo Energy paid out nearly £150k over the winter to customers opting to switch their times of consumption.
Power Move, the challenger retailer’s...
Top to toe: SSEN seeks flex contracts covering 15 zones
Distribution network operator SSEN is seeking partners offering flex services across fifteen zones, in areas spanning the Highlands and southern England as far north...
Grid Instability jeopardises energy security for data centres
A new research report has mapped out temporary opportunities for facility stakeholders in major European data centre markets to maintain site resilience in a...
Grid celebrates 1.6 million flex players, preps for more
As many as 1.6 million homes and businesses took part in Britain’s biggest exercise to date in flexibility shifting of peak power load, the...
Masdar chooses Octopus’s Kraken to run £1 billion UK storage deal
Global green power developer Masdar has chosen Octopus Energy’s Kraken platform to manage its £1 billion investment in grid-scale batteries in the UK.
The deal...
Ferrybridge to house SSE Renewables’ second grid-scale battery
Energy supplier SSE Renewables has announced its second former coal-fired power station site at Ferrybridge, west Yorkshire, will house a 150MW grid-scale battery. The...
Cero and Enso agree financing on 50MW battery for Larks Green
The developers of Britain’s first solar farm now generating directly into the nation’s transmission network have agreed financial terms to add a 49.9MW battery...
Register for the Flexibility Report 2023 launch webinar
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The Energyst is launching the 2023 Energy Flexibility Report with a webinar at 09:30 on Tuesday 13th June 2023.
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EDF joins research to help households save more cash and carbon through flexibility schemes
EDF is part of a new government-backed project looking at innovative ways to reduce customer bills and their impact on the environment.
Working alongside smart...
Cancel coal-ture: “Pay customers, not coal burners”, Octopus tells NG
Octopus Energy is demanding National Grid ESO stops asking generators to burn coal, and instead uses consumer flexibility as a cheaper, low carbon alternative.
At...
Adaptogen’s battery fund nets £207m, over-subscribed by 18%
Another capital-raising exercise to fund grid-scale batteries on Britain's power networks has been over-subscribed by London investors.
Adaptogen Capital said this morning it has attracted...
New Energy Flexibility report
The NEW 2023 Energy Flexibility Report published by The Energyst in partnership with Power Responsive, drax, epexspot & Gridimp is now available.
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Cornwall & DLA Piper: bigger tax breaks, better breakthroughs needed for >2-hour grid storage
Essential storage technologies ranging beyond two-hours in endurance won’t happen on the UK grid without technical innovation & incentives including tax breaks, two consultancy...
“Move fast, and build things”: NG-ESO unveils 2023 Future Energy Scenarios
Lack of political will, not cash nor technology, is Britain’s drag anchor holding back “the network transformation of our lifetimes”, the boss of power...
UKRI boosts sustainable energy research with £53 million
Taxpayer-supported grant giver UK Research & Innovation is helping energy-related research at six centres, with £53 million of new money.
Greater complexities in power distribution,...
Octopus extends Zero Bill homes concept, aims for 10,000 by 2025
Britain’s second largest energy supplier has found a new partner in its dream to deliver 10,000 new energy bill-free homes before 2025.
Octopus Energy is...
World’s biggest ohm game near Old Trafford: Manchester nets globe’s biggest grid-scale battery
Energy infrastructure developer Carlton Power this morning announced it has won planning approval to install the world’s biggest known electricity storage device on a...