150MW: Developers of UK’s biggest battery plan to make it bigger
The developers of the UK's largest battery are aiming to take it up to 150MW. And they say they can go even bigger.
Penso Power,...
Anesco secures planning permission for 50MW solar farm in Lincolnshire
A 50MW solar farm developed by Anesco has been given the green light by East Lindsey District Council, with the company gearing up for...
The battery storage market is being failed by its traders
In the medium term, only the best traders will survive in the battery storage market, suggests Kiwi Power head energy merchant, Aaron Lally.
Battery storage...
UK Power Networks’ DSO launches Britain’s first distribution day-ahead Flex service
UK Power Networks’ Distribution System Operator (DSO) is to become the first network to offer a day-ahead flexibility product at distribution level.
The move comes...
Is Triad past its peak?
National Grid’s 'Triad' peak charging methodology has helped reduce demand peaks since the early nineties. Will it still be effective as the market changes,...
Windel Energy and Recurrent Energy submit planning application for 150MW Buckland battery energy storage...
Renewable energy developers, Windel Energy, and Recurrent Energy have announced they have submitted a planning application to Dorset Council for the development of a...
volytica diagnostics partners with enspired to strengthen BESS Trading with Battery Health Insights
volytica diagnostics and enspired have joined forces in a strategic partnership to combine volytica's predictive battery analytics software with enspired's AI-driven real-time trading for...
Piclo facilitates entry of EV chargers into the Capacity Market with Axle Energy
Piclo, the global marketplace for flexibility services and market access, is pleased to announce a successful secondary trade between Axle Energy and Oaktree Power,...
Storage heavyweights Highview raise £300 million to bring UK’s biggest LAES battery to Manchester
Compressed gas storage specialists Highview Power have raised £300 million from investors including Centrica & the UK Infrastructure Bank to build Britain’s first grid-scale...
Ørsted to pump Hornsea 3 juice into 600MWh battery near Norwich
Wind power developers Ørsted are committing to store electricity from their 1.2GW Hornsea 3 marine farm next to a substation at Swardeston, near Norwich
The...
Flexitricity VPP hits half a gigawatt, predicts “dramatic growth” for DSR
Aggregator Flexitricity claims its virtual power plant (VPP) has reached 500MW - and predicts a boom for the sector.
The firm said a 15MW asset...
Piclo flexes to the Max, plans global trades for 2024
Trading platform provider Piclo is readying for launch a product that will enable its clients to trade flexibility capacity on global markets.
Starting in the...
Summer balancing costs £718m and counting, Ofgem mulls what to do
The UK has incurred record power system balancing costs this summer as a result of Covid lockdowns and subsequent demand destruction.
Ofgem is now preparing...
AI-powered Hub allows households to actively participate in energy markets
Otovo (www.otovo.co.uk), a leading European residential solar and battery marketplace, today announces a partnership with British Virtual Power Plant Levelise (www.levelise.com) to transform how...
UK’s largest battery storage project secures planning consent
Fidra Energy, a European battery energy storage system (BESS) platform headquartered in Edinburgh, UK, has secured planning consent to build and operate its flagship battery...
The importance of a market facilitator in driving forward local market flexibility
By Peter Stanley, Elexon Chief Executive
In July, the Energy Networks Association confirmed that network companies had procured a record 4GW of flexibility capacity -...
Potting the green: Aussie-Canadian link to purge sodium sulphate from cathode making
Two firms innovating in power storage say their new collaboration can speed worldwide deployment of batteries, made cleaner and with less waste.
Chemicals-to-energy combine Worley...
Construction of world’s largest grid-scale ultracapacitor
Reactive Technologies has signed a contract with Spanish technology group Ingeteam for the construction of a 5MW ultracapacitor to enable National Grid ESO to...
EDF Renewables UK with over 300MW of battery storage projects
EDF Renewables UK is set to bring more than 300MW of battery storage online to support the decarbonisation of the UK’s grid. The strong...
Limejump to optimise 90MW of SSDC Opium’s storage
Limejump, the Shell-owned monetiser of grid-scale batteries, is teaming up with SSDC Opium Power to run two more units totalling 90 MW across the...