SMS to develop new Demand Side Response applications for domestic flexibility market

SMS has been awarded a new contract through the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero as part of a consortium aiming to establish...

ib vogt & financiers DIF swoop for UK’s biggest storage-and-solar portfolio

Solar farm operators ib vogt and financiers DIF Capital have signed a deal for future purchase of 720MW of consented solar PV sites, in...

Salted (sic) for Is and whizz: Mancs brave Italian brine to lift lithium

A Manchester University spin-off has signed a deal with an Italian mining company aimed at making lithium in commercial quantities. Watercycle Technologies, a deep tech...

Gold rush! Gore Street buys Big in California, finds amp-sheltering Rock

London-quoted investors Gore Street Energy Storage Fund are buying big into America’s grid-scale storage market, acquiring a 200 MW project to be located in...

Zenobē reaches financial close on Phase 1 of world’s first 300 MW battery hooked...

Ground is being broken at Blackhillock, between Aberdeen & Inverness, to deliver the first 200MW of a planned 300MW storage project.  Zenobē say it’s...

Zenobē sparks up Europe’s biggest net-plugged battery, in quest of multi-million savings

Battery optimisers and traders Zenobē have begun operations at the weekend from their new 100MW installation at Capenhurst, Cheshire. It is Europe’s biggest to be...

Recouping investment in flexible and sustainable Battery Energy Storage

Andrew Donald, Senior Business Development Manager at Powerstar, considers Future Energy Scenarios in the transition to net zero and government and investor appetite for...

VPP champ Octopus Maxes out, permits firms to spread single-site clean generation UK-wide

Green-exclusive generator Octopus Energy, Britain’s third biggest supplier, is enabling multi-site companies who self-generate their renewable power to spread it between sites, even nationwide. The...

Aussies follow on, offering to retrieve England battery team from ashes

Administrators of collapsed battery mega-manufacturer Britishvolt think they’ve found its saviour in an Australian startup. Founded only last year, Recharge Industries were named at the...

Lack of long-duration batteries “costs UK £60 Billion in four months”: and the Germans...

Britain’s continuing failure to store renewable electricity at scale has left the country wasting £ 60 billion on imported gas over just four months...

Czechs write cheque to buy InterGen

Independent power producing major InterGen has been sold by its parent company to Czech investors Creditas Group for an undisclosed sum. With over 25 years’...

Faraday Challenge hands out £27.6 million to battery innovators

Projects exploring battery recycling, digital twins, new battery materials, and new manufacturing techniques have received funding from the government’s Faraday Battery Challenge. From digital twins...

Scots hill to roar with power, as Tag tags Santander for big battery

Power storage provider TagEnergy has secured funding for its fourth amp-amungous crèche-for-coulombs in the UK, the 49.9MW/100MWh Roaring Hill development in Fife. Santander UK are...

“Gneiss to see you!”: power storers Gravitricity ask financiers to drop in

The Edinburgh-based weight droppers kicked off this year by unveiling their FlexiStore hydrogen storage technology as a new product alongside their existing gravity-based technologies. The...

NG-ESO puts coal plants on standby again tonight, as suppliers prep DSR cash for...

National Grid ESO has for the second time this winter requested coal-burning power stations to be put on standby, and is asking suppliers to...

Enabling flexibility at all levels of the grid

Distributed Energy Generation (DERs) and electrification of the transport sector will result in more grid challenges at a regional and local level. The Local...

Gravitricity ponders hydrogen as “porridge” for ‘Goldilocks’ storage shafts

Inertia-based power storage pioneers Gravitricity are positing steel-lined mine shafts and rock piercings nearly 400 metres deep as storage tanks for Britain’s soon-to-be-abundant hydrogen. The...

Zenobē signs Stateside deal with Japanese partner

Founded only five years ago, the London-based operator says its 235MW of grid-connected batteries in the UK contributes to its status as the largest...

Grid celebrates success of Demand Flex Service

Britain’s electricity system operator is congratulating itself on delivering flex services at scale for the first time in the nation’s history. Five completed trial events...

Piclo to support National Grid ESO’s new Local Constraint Market in Scotland

After a competitive tender process, Piclo has been selected by National Grid to run a Local Constraint Market (LCM) in a move to clamp...