UK Power Networks awards 123MW of flex contracts – EVs included
UK Power Networks has awarded contracts for 123MW of flexible power worth £14m, with flexibility from electric vehicles making up part of the mix.
The...
Kensa starts deploying smart heat pumps at Oxford ‘superhub’ project
Heat pump firm Kensa and housing provider Stonewater have started installing the first smart heat pumps as part of the Oxford ‘superhub’ smart grid...
600MWh: Statera plans UK’s biggest battery at Thurrock
Statera-owned Thurrock Power is planning to build the UK’s largest battery as part of a hybrid 750MW power plant.
According to documents lodged with the...
Tesla granted electricity generation licence ahead of VPP push
Tesla Motors has been granted a UK electricity generation licence enabling it to further local ambitions as an energy business.
The electric carmaker is planning...
Invinity sells 1.7MWh new flow storage despite Covid
Invinity Energy Systems, the vanadium flow storage company created by the merger of Avalon and RedT, says it has signed orders for 1.7MWh of...
Zenobe picks EDF to trade 59MW of battery storage
Battery storage developer Zenobe has picked EDF to trade flexibility from 59MW of grid-scale assets.
The utility will optimise three of Zenobe's operational batteries at...
BP: leaves oil in ground, prepares for £80/t carbon price by 2030
BP today became the first global oil giant to accept hydrocarbon reserves must remain unexploited, if the firm is to survive. It's also preparing...
National Grid extends EDF contract to turn down Sizewell B
National Grid has extended the contract it struck with EDF to reduce output from the Sizewell B nuclear station in a bid to keep...
Covid-19 and energy contracts: Making volume tolerance clauses interesting
Catalyst Commercial Services CEO, Chris Hurcombe, discusses Covid-19's impact on business energy contracts - and how volume tolerance clauses could prove costly, if enforced.
The...
Energy storage: Why UK industry isn’t going with the flow
Flow storage struggles to compete against lithium even in long duration applications, suggests Marek Kubik, market director at Fluence Energy.
The UK hit a new...
Centrica axes 5,000 jobs
Centrica is to cull a further 5,000 jobs this year, including around 20 top-level directors.
New CEO Chris O'Shea is attempting to curb heavy losses...
Push harder on flexibility and half hourly settlement, firms tell Ofgem
A group of energy and technology companies have urged Ofgem to show “leadership” and expedite market-wide half hourly settlement to unlock flexibility from small...
Bristol City Council to try and sell Bristol Energy
Bristol City Council will attempt to sell Bristol Energy. The company was set up in 2015 and has struggled financially.
The council last month appointed...
United Utilities installs 2MW battery alongside solar
United Utilities has installed a 2MW battery alongside solar power at a treatment works in Preston.
The water company said the batteries will improve site...
If we don’t get 10GW of storage fast, EFR prices ‘will look like peanuts’
National Grid's new measures to push power off the system offer a glimpse of the not too distant future: Without greater flexibility, balancing gets...
Sizewell C: EDF prepares to push nuclear option
EDF is seeking planning approval for its 3.2GW plant at Sizewell C on the Suffolk coast. The state-owned utility plans to test UK government...
Power Transition crowdfunds ‘not blockchain’ peer-to-peer energy tech
A software firm is bidding to build local energy markets using distributed ledger technology that it claims is orders of magnitude faster than blockchain.
Power...
Greenpeace slams mega solar farm in Kent, Drax closes in on 3.6GW gas giant
Two minute briefing on energy stories to start the week:
Britain’s biggest solar farm, Hive Energy and Wirsol Energy’s £450m Cleve Hill project on...
PeakGen and Zenobe land nine year reactive power contracts
PeakGen and Zenobe have won £8.7m in contracts to provide reactive power, which helps keep voltage stable, in Mersey.
National Grid said it had picked...
Sunday demand to drop to 13.8GW, National Grid seeks more footroom
National Grid ESO expects demand on the transmission system to hit a new low this weekend and will likely need to call on its...