SSE enters DSR market, woos I&C businesses and local authorities
SSE Enterprise is stepping up its push to bring industrial and commercial firms into flexibility markets and ancillary services with the formal launch of...
Ovo cops bill for SSE’s missed smart meter targets
Ovo will pay £1.2m in redress after SSE Energy Services failed to meet its smart meter installation target for 2019.
Ovo acquired the SSE’s domestic...
Simic Atlantis share price soars on Uskmouth debt finance framework
Simec Atlantis has seen its share price soar in early trading after striking a financing deal with South Korea's Hana Financial Investment (HFI) for...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...