Investors GLIL pledge £150m to ion Ventures for big batteries
International clean tech developer ion Ventures has accepted up to £150 million for committing its UK energy projects to a partnership with GLIL Infrastructure...
Williams and Molicel to collaborate on battery cells
Williams Advanced Engineering and Molicel have agreed a strategic collaboration to support the next generation of high performance, superior quality, lithium-ion power battery cells.
This...
Morocco unbound: £16 billion green power pipe mooted to Devon giga-battery
British energy entrepreneurs Xlinks have unveiled ambitious plans to link solar and wind power generated in the Moroccan desert with UK power consumers via...
Pivot hooks UK’s first tertiary battery to Grid, as Anesco contracts for two big...
The sophistication of battery innovations now hooked to the grid took a leap forward this week, with two major announcements.
In a UK network first,...
Welsh and Scots cities benefit from green marine power, green H2 and green mobility
Three cities outside England may reap rewards from major green developments, under proposals announced coincidentally in recent days.
Blue Eden is Swansea's latest £1.7 billion...
Wake up to 8-hour storage: Ceres and RFC enjoy breakfast of (ch)Amps &...
Fuel cell firm Ceres Power this morning teamed up with RFC Power, an Imperial College spin-off, in quest of the world’s most efficient flow...
Windel and Canadian Solar eye a further 1.5 GW of UK battery projects
For the second time in less than a year, British renewables developer Windel Energy and integrated module manufacturer Canadian Solar have teamed up to...
Battery bonanza: Twenty-fold storage expansion to characterise the world in the 2020s, say Bloomberg
Energy practitioners all sense it. Now a leading consultancy is the latest to put numbers around the intuition: “The 2020s are the decade of...
Grid-scale power storage as long as 24 hours “must reach up to 2.5 GWh...
Grid-scale capacity to store electricity for between two and 24 hours will need to rocket up 400 times on current deployments, reaching between 1.5...
At 360 MW, Teesside primed to host Europe’s biggest battery
The North-east industrial cluster of Teesside is set to be the location for a planned 360 MW battery storage system, billed as Europe's largest.
Sembcorp...
British Lithium extracts ‘pilot quantity’ lithium from Cornwall
Rocks under Britain’s west country have yielded up the first ore for a pioneering venture to home-source battery grade lithium. British Lithium Limited believes...
Carlton Power and Stag Energy merge to deliver infrastructure wizardry
Two of Britain’s longest established developers of energy infrastructure are joining up. Ending three decades of independence, Carlton Power and Stag Energy today plight...
“Magnetisable concrete” trialled for non-stop charging of EVs
The adapted concrete has a high magnetic permeability, thus lending itself to inductive charging as a vehicle passes above. It would open the way...
Gresham House powers 65% ahead in 2021, stores up wealth
Sustainability and power storage investor Gresham House saw its assets under management surge 65% to £6.5 billion last year, with "exceptional" organic value growth...
ITM Power’s half years: Orders quadrupled, cash burn slows
Securing new contracts resulted in six-month losses for hydrogen electrolyser maker ITM Power being cut back last year on 2020’s equivalent period to £...
Western Power debuts ‘first of a kind’ flex marketplace for smaller assets
Britain’s biggest distributed network operator today reaches out to small owners of storage assets, launching its platform to trade flex capacity and set prices...
Eelpower and Habitat agree optimisation deal for 100MW of storage
Energy storage firm Eelpower has signed a three-year deal for battery optimisation with Habitat Energy, covering two 50MW storage projects.
Due for location at Fordtown...
D-BEIS primes first wave of LDES projects with £6.7 million
Two dozen hopeful ventures in energy storage are to benefit from competition prizes worth £6.7 million.
Energy ministry D-BEIS confirmed the wins yesterday across competing...
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...
Gresham House stores up projects, packs unbuilt pipeline to 717 MW, eyes Anglo phone
Britain’s biggest investment fund for grid-scale batteries charged ahead in 2021, posting record figures today. Overseas markets beckon, its chairman signalled this morning.
Gresham House...