Public sector decarbonisation scheme
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has launched the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme which will be delivered by Salix. The Grant Scheme will offer £1bn...
Total acquires Ørsted’s UK B2B customer portfolio
Total has signed an agreement to purchase the majority of Ørsted’s UK business to business gas and electricity customer base.  Total has agreed to...
SEEIT expands with acquisition of energy efficiency projects in Singapore
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc, a UK-listed investment company that invests exclusively in the energy efficiency sector, today announces the acquisition of its...
After Bristol Energy, Yü CEO eyes more buys
Yü Group CEO Bobby Kalar is planning more acquisitions, having taken on Bristol Energy last month.
The firm’s share priced climbed 20 per cent in...
Balancing services task force: Everyone should pay based on power consumption
All final demand customers should pay grid balancing charges that are based on a set £/MWh basis, according to the Balancing Services Charges Task...
John Lewis Partnership and Engie ink major PPA, energy services deal
The John Lewis Partnership has signed a major energy services and supply deal with French utility Engie.
The three-year contract covers clean energy supply, including...
Need for speed: National Grid launches Dynamic Containment service
National Grid ESO will launch a new service to help balance the power grid this week.
Dynamic Containment is designed to bring frequency back to...
Intergen seeks generation licence for giant 700MWh battery storage scheme
Intergen has applied for a generation licence at Spalding Energy Park, where it has planning permission for a battery storage system of up to...
Limejump to trade flex from 46MW subsidy-free wind farm in BM and CM
Shell-owned virtual power plant operator Limejump has landed a deal to trade power from the 46MW Crossdykes wind farm in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.
The...
Inertia booster: Welsh Power and Quinbrook start work on flywheel flex project
Welsh Power and Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners have broken ground on a new project to help keep the GB power system stable.
Awarded one of five...
Tesla enters UK flex market as National Grid upgrades balancing mechanism tech
Tesla became the first party to trade flexible power in the balancing mechanism (BM) using National Grid's new control room API.
The electric carmaker, equipped...
Clean power, PPAs, greener gas: Sign up here for free expert procurement webinars
The Energyst is hosting a series of expert webinars next week, covering everything industrial, commercial and public sector organisations need to know about energy...
Fire at Ørsted’s 20MW Carnegie Road battery storage site
Firefighters last night had to extinguish a blaze at Ørsted's 20MW battery storage scheme at Carnegie Road, Liverpool.
The Danish firm commissioned the site, it's...
Power prices soar as National Grid issues capacity market notice
Within day power prices today soared above £300 per megawatt hour within minutes of National Grid issuing a Capacity Market Notice.
At around 1pm, the...
AMP to build 175MW of gas engines after signing 15-year Statkraft deal
Statkraft has signed a 15-year deal to optimise 175MW of flexible gas engines for AMP Clean Energy.
The arrangement will enable AMP to finance the...
Alpiq sells Flexitricity for £15m
Swiss utility Alpiq has sold aggregator Flexitricity to Reserve Power Holdings in a share sale agreement worth around £15m.
The Edinburgh-based firm, one of the...
Scottish Power tenders for 900MW of flexibility
Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN) has launched its biggest ever call for flexibility services at 40 locations across the UK. The 900MW call sends...
Flow storage as a service: EDF’s Pivot Power inks 10-year vanadium electrolyte rental
EDF-owned Pivot Power has signed a 10-year rental agreement for the flow storage component of the Oxford Superhub, a major smart cities project delivering...
Robin Hood Energy sold to Centrica
Nottingham City Council-owned Robin Hood Energy has been sold to Centrica. Some 250 staff have been told they face redundancy, according to the Nottingham...
Social Energy lands week-ahead FFR contract via domestic batteries
Social Energy has won a contact to provide firm frequency response (FFR) to National Grid ESO via its weekly auction using entirely domestic batteries.
The...