‘Land grab’ for EV car parks and revenue
Retailers, hoteliers and local authorities are stepping up efforts to develop revenue generating electric vehicle car parks – and secure grid rights in what...
Ørsted to build 20MW Liverpool battery storage unit
Ørsted is to build a 20MW battery storage facility near Liverpool.
The company said permits are already in place, construction will start in May and...
Crestchic claims Loadbanks boost DSR, FFR and EFR revenue
The UK energy market has seen a significant increase in large scale battery storage systems. Multi-megawatt battery systems require significant investment and will need...
Critical sites: getting on board with DSR
A new white paper, Mission critical sites and DSR: turned on or turned off?, reports that the tide is turning and an increasing number...
SSEN to trial Open Utility’s flexibility trading platform
Distribution network operator SSEN will trial Open Utility's flexibility trading platform to try and make it easier for companies to provide demand-side response, or...
Former Npower chief Paul Massara takes reins at blockchain firm Electron
Paul Massara is to take the CEO role at energy blockchain firm Electron.
The former Npower chief executive joined Electron as a non-executive director last...
£20m debt funding for battery storage firm Eelpower
Eelpower has secured £20m of debt funding with Gravis Capital Management to build out its battery storage pipeline.
Eelpower plans to build, own and operate...
One careful owner: 300kW battery used in innovation trials for sale
SGC seeks expressions of interest from parties interested in acquiring a containerised lithium ion phosphate battery following its use in Network Innovation Trials. A...
Flexibility platform provider Origami Energy raises £18.6 million, plans to go global
Origami Energy has raised a further £18.6m, mostly from generator firm Aggreko. Other investors include Octopus Ventures, Cambridge Innovation Capital, and Fred Olsen related companies.
The...
The changing face of energy: The Energyst Event
New event taking place 17th to 18th of April at National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham
The full conference line-up has been officially announced for the inaugural...
Pilot project explores grid balancing with UPS
Eaton has announced the first pilot project of its recently launched UPS-as-a-Reserve (UPSaaR) solution. Svenska kraftnät, a Swedish electricity transmission system operator, has selected...
Should Ofgem consider derating DSR plus battery storage? Aggregators weigh in
Ofgem is mulling a proposal by Scottish Power to further derate demand-side response (DSR) within the Capacity Market (CM) where it uses behind the...
Energy storage firm RedT hires Green Investment Bank senior as finance chief
Energy storage firm RedT has hired former Green Investment Bank managing director for finance, Fraser Welham, as its chief financial officer.
The company, which makes...
Swindon Council gets planning consent for 50MW battery storage scheme, seeks developers
Swindon Council has been given the green light from its planning department to build a 50MW/50MWh battery storage scheme.
The scheme, on council owned ground,...
Statkraft to optimise revenues for 6MW battery in Dorking
Norway's Statkraft will optimise a 6MW/6MWh battery in Dorking for Grid Battery Storage Limited (GBSL), trading its output and managing firm frequency response services.
The...
Statkraft eyes new retail and flexibility models and plans to develop data centres
Norway’s state-owned utility Statkraft is eyeing new energy retail and distributed energy models in the UK and has plans to develop data centres, as...
Smartest Energy to use Origami’s flexibility platform to optimise DSR revenues
Smartest Energy will use Origami Energy’s technology platform to manage its customers’ distributed energy assets and consumption and boost demand-side response revenues.
The deal enables...
Free London Seminar: How energy storage is central to decentralisation
Sponsored: On Wednesday, 21 March 2018, businesses interested in the UK’s current and future energy landscape are invited to join Powerstar in central London...
Octopus Energy launches time of use tariff, targets businesses as well as households
Octopus Energy has launched a time of use tariff that will pay customers to use electricity when there is too much power on the...
Flexitricity inks DSR deal with Ameresco
Ameresco has partnered with Flexitricity to provide demand side response (DSR) services to its industrial and commercial customers in the UK and Europe.
It...