SEEIT buys portfolio of Intercontinental Hotel Group CHP assets
SDLC Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEEIT) has acquired £5m of combined heat and power assets from GET Solutions, with an additional £12m pipeline to...
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...
Good Energy’s Zap Map launches cross-network EV charging app
Good Energy-backed Zap Map has officially launched its cross-network payment app for electric vehicle drivers.
Zap Pay is designed to work across all networks. The...
SSE chief tells Ofgem ‘there’s still time to save net zero’
SSE chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies has penned an open letter to Ofgem urging it to rethink deep cuts to transmission company returns and "put...
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...
Volta Trucks touts 16 tonne electric lorry ‘at same cost as diesel’
Volta Trucks has officially unveiled its first electric lorry, a 16 tonne resin-bodied unit for urban logistics that it aims to deliver at comparable...
SSE fined £2m over wholesale market inside information breaches
Ofgem has fined SSE £2.06m over wholesale market inside information breaches.
The fine relates to disclosure around a Black Start contract with National Grid. SSE...
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...
Thurrock Power: RWE throws spanner in works for UK’s biggest hybrid battery plant
RWE has taken issue with Statera’s plans for a 750MW hybrid flexible power plant at Thurrock, adjacent to its former Tilbury power station.
The firm...
Enterprise’s EV strategy director on public charging challenge, electric van clubs and a dearth...
The UK’s public charging patchwork poses challenges for a car rental business and would-be customers, says Iain Macbeth, European director of strategy - Electric...
Gresham House eyes dynamic containment, availability payments to make battery storage “mainstream”
Gresham House Energy Storage thinks new services being brought to market by National Grid could enable battery storage to go mainstream.
The fund now has...
AFC seals deal for 100kW hydrogen fuel cell to German ‘smart city’ demonstrator
AFC Energy has been awarded a contract to supply a 100kW alkaline fuel cell system to smart city demonstrator in Germany.
The German government published...
Heat pumps, energy efficiency and DSR ‘critical’ to decarbonise London
If London is to stand a chance become a net zero emissions city within a decade, mass deployment and funding of heat pumps will...
Vehicle-to-grid: Where’s the smart money?
Last year Nuvve and EDF launched a joint venture called Dreev in a bid to scale flexibility from EVs.
Operating across UK, France, Germany, Belgium...
Postcode lottery: SSEN data shows challenge of planning fairly for net zero
Distribution network operator Scottish and Southern Energy Networks (SSEN) has published data that shows the challenges local and national governments face in fairly delivering...
Electric vehicles: Least regrets for local authorities
Jacob Roberts spent two years as a local government officer. As such, he understands firsthand the challenges that declarations from the top, such as...
Hitachi ABB and Zenobe team up to enable battery-powered trains
Hitachi ABB Power Grids has teamed up with battery storage outfit Zenobe to use battery power to energise overhead lines at train depots and...
Zeigo, Scottish Power and DLA Piper bid to ‘hack’ aggregated PPAs
Power Purchase Agreement platform Zeigo is launching a PPA hackathon in a bid to find novel ways of aggregating demand and enabling businesses to...
“Huge change is needed, right now”: Brewdog goes carbon negative
Brewdog has gone carbon negative, double offsetting scope 1, 2 and upstream scope 3 carbon emissions.
The firm has bought 2050 acres in the Scottish...