Battery investors Gresham House charge up 20% full year growth

The fund thinks it is on course to be operating 1 GW of heavy duty batteries this year and 1.5 GW next. Net asset value...

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...

UK’s biggest li-ion recycling plant set to open “within weeks”

Britain’s biggest facility for recycling lithium from batteries along with associated cobalt, manganese and & nickel, moved closer to reality today, as the Environment...

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...

Battery gunk recycler scores CAM first

A battery recycling start-up is claiming a UK first, announcing today that it has isolated a key component to make new lithium-ion batteries from...

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

Register for the webinar here. The Energyst is launching the 2023 Energy Flexibility Report with a webinar at 09:30 on Tuesday 13th June 2023. We need...

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...

NG zooms for industry views to speed renewables hook-ups

National Grid ESO has opened its latest round of consultation events, aimed at tapping industry wisdom to speed up connections for new renewables generators. Over...

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.  Download your free...

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...