Brixton energy group innovates local flex services with EDF & UKPN
Community energy activists in south London have teamed up with two power behemoths to innovate power flexibility at the neighbourhood-level local.
A co-operatively-funded,-owned and-managed 37kWp...
Zenobe plugs Santander’s £60 million into Europe’s biggest battery near Chester
Fast growing storage operator Zenobe has flagged its intention to build Europe’s biggest storage device at Capenhurst, near Chester.
The 107MWh battery will be the...
50MW transmission-connected battery activated in Oxford
Pivot Power, part of EDF Renewables, Wärtsilä and Habitat Energy, activated the UK’s first grid-scale battery storage system directly connected to the transmission-network as...
Aceleron launches what it claims is the World’s first totally renewable lithium-ion battery
Aceleron has launched a reusable, repairable and fully recyclable lithium-ion battery. Each individual part of the battery can be accessed using Aceleron's own compression...
Power Potential pilot plots path to pots of plenty, practitioners posit
Nine months of ‘world’s first’ trials into reactive power point the way to a potential £100 million market across the UK, National Grid ESO...
Norway and Britain to swap clean electricity tomorrow over world’s longest subsea cable
Northumbria’s monks, beware; charged up Norsemen will tomorrow (Wed 23rd) tentatively unleash their hoard of clean volts on your Geordie shore.
Long contracts, not longships,...
The Energyst – Latest issue out now
The latest edition of The Energyst is now ready to read today online or via the new Energyst App.
The Energyst is now published monthly,...
“What’s that, Skippy? You’ve bought 187MW of batteries in Scotland & Southern England? So...
Once epitomised by marketers as a toy rabbit playing a drum, enduring battery power became linked today - at UK grid scale at least...
Britain’s interconnector links are ‘Europe’s most expensive’, say consultants
Porting utility volumes of power to or from the UK incurs fees which now stand as the highest in Europe, according to consultants EnAppSys.
The...
National Grid’s purchase of WPD faces probe by competition regulator
The National Grid’s £7.8 billion intended purchase of Western Power Distribution, the regional DNO, is to be investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority.
As...
Majority of UK manufacturers prioritising flexible energy models in post-pandemic recovery
Manufacturing businesses are heavily focussed on flexible generation and distribution alongside decarbonisation of their energy use in the wake of the pandemic. This is...
Technologies evolving in the stationary storage market
The stationary energy storage market is growing fast, both Front-of-the-Meter (FTM) and Behind-the-Meter (BTM), with the market size expected to be tens of billions by...
NGP webinar offers insight into cutting energy, carbon and cost using energy management systems
NGP is inviting the industry to engage with a free-to-attend webinar which demonstrates how its energy management systems ClearVUE can help businesses gain greater...
Miner-turned-flex trader Corcel agrees terms for Avonmouth gas peaker project
AIM-quoted company-in-transition Corcel has advanced further towards its second gas peaking and flex trading facility, buying full rights to a 50MW ‘shovel ready’ project...
Northern Gas and Power appoints senior hire to focus on global energy strategy
Northern Gas and Power (NGP), part of Global Procurement Group (GPG), has appointed Latif Faiyaz as Head of Flexible Purchasing and Energy Strategy, a...
Sussex energy co-op BHESCO plugs in to Moixa
Storage innovators Moixa are plugging into a Sussex energy co-operative, launching a pilot Virtual Power Plant (VPP) to cut DNO costs.
Via social enterprise Brighton...
The Energyst – Latest issue out now
The latest edition of The Energyst is now ready to read today online or via the new Energyst App.
The Energyst is now published monthly,...
National Grid boosts UK power capex by 3%, but continues retreat from gas
National Grid increased spending on UK backbone electricity transmission last year by 3% to £1.072 Billion, its results for the year to March published...
Foresight’s 50MW Dundee battery to be balanced by Flexitricity
Scheduled to begin operations before next March, the storage installation will draw revenues from the National Grid’s Balancing Mechanism, providing stabilisation and demand management...
Megawatt Ton for RES, top-scoring its century battery in Yorkshire
Clean storage developer RES Group has been given planners’ go-ahead to install its biggest battery yet.
The Hertfordshire-headquartered firm’s planned 99.9MW installation received approval this week...