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...
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...
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...
Gridserve teams up with retail giants at UK’s first EV forecourt
Gridserve has announced partnerships with big name retailers ahead of completing in November its first high-powered EV charging forecourt near Braintree, Essex.
Brands including WH...
Uber pledges pure EV fleet by 2030, applies London blueprint globally
Uber’s CEO has committed to making all of its European cars EVs within a decade and has set aside $800m (£623m) to help drivers transition...
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...
Scania launches 300kWh battery-powered lorry, claims 150 miles on one charge
Scania has launched its first fully electric lorry. It claims the most powerful version, powered by nine batteries with a capacity of 300kWh, can...
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...
Nuvve strikes V2G school bus deal in US, eyes UK partners
Vehicle-to-grid technology firm Nuvve has struck a deal with a US-based school bus manufacturer to turn them into mobile storage units that can help...
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...
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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...
Ofgem calls for evidence on National Grid ESO’s performance
Ofgem seeks industry views on how the electricity system operator has performed in the first half of the year.
The regulator’s framework regularly seeks such...
National Grid and Dutch TSO scope offshore grid
National Grid and Dutch transmission system operator Tennet are working on plans for a multipoint interconnector that would connect offshore wind farms to both...
Government consults on biogas levy, favours flat rate per meter
Government thinks its plans for a biogas levy will add no more than £6.90 per annum per meter - both for businesses and households.
The...
Renewable UK: “Make hydrogen the central pillar of decarbonisation”
The UK renewable lobby is urging the government to make hydrogen "the central pillar of decarbonisation" and to publish its hydrogen strategy before 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...
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...
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...