Ofgem asks whether it needs to take further action over connections failures
Ofgem has urged businesses to inform its views on whether to take further action against distribution networks over connections.
Connections and export agreements are one...
Electron wins £640k funding to build blockchain demand-side response trading platform
Electron has been awarded £637,000 in government funding to scale its prototype blockchain trading platform for demand-side response.
The company's application for the funding was...
National Grid opens up carbon intensity forecast tools in bid to engage public on...
National Grid has launched software that predicts the likely carbon intensity of power on the system up to 48 hours ahead.
It has also launched...
Upside and Powervault installing 1MW of hot water tanks and batteries to prove domestic...
The companies are installing 500 'smart' hot water tanks alongside 100 lithium-ion batteries in homes across Cornwall and London. They will aggregate their flexibility...
Marks & Spencer mulls battery storage but struggles to find experts
Marks & Spencer is considering investment in battery storage to support environmental goals, cut costs and generate revenue. But the retailer is struggling to...
CHP unit ‘earns extra £273 every hour’ it participates in Dong’s revenue share balancing...
A firm that operates a 3MW combined heat and power plant says it has earned and additional £273 on average every hour it has...
Eon to end standard variable tariffs for customers that agree to a smart meter
Eon has committed to ending standard variable tariffs (SVTs) energy tariffs by default.
SVTs offer poor value compared to fixed-term deals and energy firms are...
DNOs ‘no threat’ to DSR aggregators and suppliers
Western Power Distribution and UK Power Networks have rejected suggestions that they could potentially abuse monopoly positions in procuring flexibility to help balance their...
Centrica to use Gateshead Council’s 3MW battery storage system for both local and national...
Centrica is to manage a 3MW battery storage system for Gateshead City Council.
The system has been installed alongside CHP units at the council's District...
Mitie demand-side response chief: Nothing can replace lost Triad value
Removal of Triad export payments has torpedoed demand-side response (DSR) business cases, at least in the short term, according to the flexibility lead at...
Shifting the balance of power: Free demand-side response and battery storage report
The Energyst has published a new, free, demand-side response and battery storage report, outlining challenges and opportunities for businesses aiming to cut costs and...
Battery storage to push frequency response revenues down STOR path?
Greater volumes of fast responding assets, such as batteries, may start to erode frequency response prices. The question is by how much and how...
Hospital earns £200K a year from flexible generation and DSR
Working with electricity supplier Haven Power and demand response aggregator Kiwi Power, Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust earns around £200,000 annually from power generation. The Trust’s Estates department has also reduced expenditure through...
E.ON integrates Fraport AG emergency power generators into virtual power plant
E.ON's virtual power plant continues to grow. Four emergency power generators for Fraport AG are now linked to E.ON's energy platform. This means that,...
Ofgem to hit network operators’ pockets over connections failures?
Energy regulator Ofgem has floated plans to clawback revenue from distribution network operators (DNOs) over perceived failures within their grid connections operations.
The regulator is...
Sheffield University launches three day solar forecasting tool
Sheffield Solar, based in the Department of Physics at the University of Sheffield, has launched a service which provides forecasts for energy generation from...
DSO goes live: UK Power Networks tenders for 35.4MW of DSR to go live...
UK Power Networks has begun a tender process for up to 35.4MW of demand-side response for delivery starting in January next year.
Following an expressions...
Engie spends £50m on pumped storage upgrade
Engie is to spend £50 million refurbishing two units at its 360MW Ffestiniog Power Station, part of the 2GW First Hydro pumped storage operation in...
Demand-side response conference: Last few free tickets for DSR Event
There are a few remaining free tickets for The Energyst's DSR Event, held in London on 7 September.
The energy system is changing dramatically. In...
RES sells 20MW EFR battery storage project to infrastructure group TRIG
Renewable energy firm RES has agreed to sell its 20MW battery storage project at Broxburn, West Lothian to The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG).
TRIG said...