Flexing your site’s energy muscle pays off
Sponsored: Smart technology deployed to monitor the energy consumption of industrial buildings and facilities is enabling ScottishPower customers to earn additional revenue. Head of Energy...
Tempus Energy closes energy supply business
Tempus Energy has closed its supply business. The company, which supplied energy to small businesses and traded the flexibility in their energy usage in...
Energy suppliers step up demand response aggregation efforts
Energy suppliers have been most active in targeting industrial and commercial firms in order to build demand-side response (DSR) portfolios, Ofgem data suggests.
The regulator’s...
Set 2020 energy storage target and subsidise turn down demand response over diesel, MPs...
The energy and climate change committee has urged the government to create policy that favours turn-down demand side response over decentralised diesel generation.
The committee,...
National Grid: No problem keeping lights on this winter
National Grid remains confident of doing its job this winter. The system operator said the margin of generation over supply has increased by 2.9GW...
National Grid urges Scottish firms to provide demand response, hosts free Edinburgh workshop
National Grid wants industrial and commercial firms based in Scotland to help balance the grid. It is inviting end-user organisations to find out more...
Public sector unconvinced by demand-side response
The bulk of the UK’s public sector estate remains unconvinced by demand-side response (DSR), shrugging off the best efforts of aggregators and energy suppliers,...
Demand Turn Up: What worked and what didn’t work in summer grid balancing trial?
National Grid's first demand turn up trial concluded at the end of September. The Energyst asked aggregators how they see the service taking shape.
Demand...
Who needs an EFR contract? Somerset solar site installs ‘grid scale’ Tesla battery storage...
Tesla's commercial scale battery storage units are being installed at a ground-mounted solar PV site in Somerset. The company managing the project, Camborne Energy...
Virtue: An internet of energy
Sponsored post: Virtue is an integrated energy management and micro-grid solution with smart grid control. It is forming an integral part in the future...
Dong Energy: Value of a flexible megawatt will increase, ‘so be careful where you...
Dong Energy managing director of sales, Jeff Whittingham, believes the value of electricity loadshifting will increase significantly over the next five years. As such,...
Trinity Mirror Group to earn up to £1m from demand-side response
Trinity Mirror Group hopes to earn between £800,000 and £1million from demand side response (DSR) this financial year.
The firm’s calculations are based on hitting all...
National Grid says 2020 DSR target “totally achievable”, mulls longer contracts
National Grid head of commercial operations Cathy McClay believes the system operator’s 2020 target to achieve up to half of grid balancing from demand-side...
Aggregators: Don’t fear disruption from demand-side response
Most operations have some degree of power consumption flexibility, according to aggregators, yet relatively few organisations participate in balancing services, according to The Energyst's...
Fear of disruption hobbling demand-side response uptake by UK firms – free report
A survey of 200 end-users finds most businesses are interested in earning revenue from demand-side response. However many continue to fear disruption to operations...
Last 10 free places for demand-side response conference next week
We have 10 remaining free tickets for end-user organisations* at our demand-side response conference in London next Thursday.
The aim of the event is to...
More than half of industrial and commercial firms investigating energy storage
Almost six in ten industrial and commercial (I&C) firms are considering investment in energy storage, according to a survey by The Energyst.
Across all sectors,...
National Grid awards seven firms £66m of enhanced frequency response contracts
National Grid has awarded enhanced frequency response (EFR) contracts worth £66m to seven companies. Most of the contracts are for battery storage.
EFR is a...
Battery storage: Positive outlook?
Costs are falling but batteries are still expensive. Bankable revenues are hard to come by and developers want more routes to market. But others...
National Grid calls time on Demand-Side Balancing Reserve
National Grid will not procure further reserve services from demand-side response providers via the Demand-Side Balancing Reserve (DSBR).
In a notice to stakeholders, Cathy McClay,...