Costly keys to the highway give Scots the faraway blues, as genco seek overhaul...
Transmission operator Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks says customer support is overwhelming for Ofgem to re-balance fees for access to UK-wide grids.
As currently framed,...
Open those SmartValves: National Grid ET trials power-flow-routing app, in quest of extra 1.5GW
Britain’s core transmission operator is seeking to liberate an extra 1.5GW of capacity, using software to by-pass choke points, avoiding big outlays on location-specific...
Equity fund Aquila wants its ‘negawatt’ fledgling to fly like an eagle on £150...
Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust seeks up to £150 million from investors, and targets net shareholder returns of up to 9.5% in ‘the medium term’.
The...
Aspirant reserve power supplier Mast hoists sail, prepares to plug in
Would-be grid backup supplier Mast Energy Developments, fresh from raising £23 million from last month’s successful flotation on the LSE, yesterday briefed investors on...
National Grid awards eight more ‘black start’ contracts
National Grid ESO has awarded contracts to eight further providers for Electricity System Restoration Services (ESRS) in the North west, North east and Scotland....
Miner Corcel digs deep to store power and sell value on Britain’s grid
Corcel, AIM-listed since 2005, is an interesting example of a niche international mining company expanding beyond its core business into grid-scale power storage. For...
Ban greenwashing, and make REGOs worth the paper they’re written on, Ofgem is urged
Energy retailing’s dirty, not-so-little secret has come under renewed scrutiny, with two prominent power providers uniting in a call to banish ‘greenwashing’.
In their joint...
EXCLUSIVE: ”Free up UK community energy co-ops to sell clean power direct to customers”,...
Boris Johnson’s government must free up the UK’s 200-plus voluntary energy co-operatives to sell self-made clean power direct to their communities, a Conservative-led committee...
What’s affecting gas and electricity prices at present?
Over the past year fundamentals effecting the wholesale energy market have changed drastically with weather, LNG supply, Brexit and COVID-19 at the forefront. Back...
Investors back Gore Street Energy Storage with £135 million to build out its 1.3GW...
Energy storage fund Gore Street has succeeded in tapping its investors for new equity needed to build out its 1.3GW pipeline of projects.
The possible...
8MWh from a 50-tonne drop? Weighty matters for storage innovators Gravitricity
Scotland’s gravity battery pioneers Gravitricity believe the recent grid connection of their pilot plant in Edinburgh’s port will give a new meaning to the...
“New epoch” of renewables unlocks capacity “to meet world energy needs 100 times over”:...
Energy economists Carbon Tracker believe fossil fuels will be ousted from world electricity production by the mid-2030s, displaced by tumbling costs of solar and...
MAN Energy Solutions to partner on world’s largest liquid-air energy-storage project
The liquid air energy storage plant uses cryogenically-liquefied air as a medium for storing energy. It is especially suitable for special applications that require...
Battery barons Gresham House snap up 30MW of Scots storage, expands fleet to 425MW
Britain’s biggest investor in utility-scale batteries Gresham House Energy Storage Fund (GHESF) today announced its first buy in Scotland, paying £15.6m from its subsidiary...
World’s first sustainable plant to separate rare earth oxides is projected for Humber estuary
A factory designed for sustainable recovery of scarce minerals essential to making batteries for EVs and wind turbines is being proposed in Britain’s booming...
Half hourly settlement in consumer retail power gets Ofgem’s green light for four year...
Ofgem has approved the introduction of half-hourly settlement in retail energy markets serving all consumers. Suppliers will have until October 2025 to implement the...
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,...
Shell seeks investors’ rubber stamp on carbon cuts, as report slams oilcos ‘staying in...
Royal Dutch Shell will next month become the first fossil fuel giant to seek shareholders’ non-binding approval for its road map to cut carbon...
Carbon emissions from UK power fall 7.6% in a year of Covid lockdowns
Closing the UK’s remaining coal-fired power stations has made a bigger dent in national carbon pollution than a year of coronavirus lockdowns, analysis by...
Easter Monday sees record low carbon intensity for GB electricity
National Grid ESO has revealed that Great Britain’s electricity grid was the greenest it’s ever been at 1pm on Monday 5th April. The carbon...