“Watershed for affordability“, as Ofgem’s P415 opens up wholesale power market to flex providers
Ofgem is seeking dramatically to increase the number of energy market participants offering flexibility services, as a route to balancing power supplies and getting...
ENW is first DNO to publish minigeneration hubs as small as 50kW
Electricity North West has become the first DNO to offer for public inspection its register of embedded capacity, listing all mini-generation plant in its...
Cancel coal-ture: “Pay customers, not coal burners”, Octopus tells NG
Octopus Energy is demanding National Grid ESO stops asking generators to burn coal, and instead uses consumer flexibility as a cheaper, low carbon alternative.
At...
Ferrybridge to house SSE Renewables’ second grid-scale battery
Energy supplier SSE Renewables has announced its second former coal-fired power station site at Ferrybridge, west Yorkshire, will house a 150MW grid-scale battery. The...
Penso gets planners’ approval for 100 MW/250 MWh battery near Reading
Grid-scale storage pioneers Penso Power have won their 18-month appeal to build a 100MW-rated battery facility in rural Hampshire.
Accommodated close to Bramley, 12 miles...
UKPN & Octopus partner to offer fuse instals with home heat pumps
A first re-fuse-al for homes fitting heat pumps to protect neighbourhood grids at the same time is the aim of a combined offer from...
Zenobē reaches financial close on Phase 1 of world’s first 300 MW battery hooked...
Ground is being broken at Blackhillock, between Aberdeen & Inverness, to deliver the first 200MW of a planned 300MW storage project. Zenobē say it’s...
VPP champ Octopus Maxes out, permits firms to spread single-site clean generation UK-wide
Green-exclusive generator Octopus Energy, Britain’s third biggest supplier, is enabling multi-site companies who self-generate their renewable power to spread it between sites, even nationwide.
The...
Lack of long-duration batteries “costs UK £60 Billion in four months”: and the Germans...
Britain’s continuing failure to store renewable electricity at scale has left the country wasting £ 60 billion on imported gas over just four months...
NG-ESO puts coal plants on standby again tonight, as suppliers prep DSR cash for...
National Grid ESO has for the second time this winter requested coal-burning power stations to be put on standby, and is asking suppliers to...
Big gas users greet ESO’s extension to 23 December for DSR bids
Representatives of Britain’s heavy gas users in industries such as cement and glass have welcomed the gas grid operator’s decision to extend its deadline...
Thanks a million: 250k Octopus homes reap flex’s rewards
More than 250,000 Octopus customers have together saved over £1 million by delivering demand flexibility over four paid-for sessions, the energy group announced today.
Operating...
Bring us 1 GW of European batteries, sing duetting RPC and Eelpower
A Europe-facing investment fund already a quarter of the way to its target of 1GW of grid-scale power storage made its market debut today.
RPC’s...
UK falls from EY’s podium of 40 most attractive nations for clean energy cash
Britain has dropped one place to fourth – behind Germany, - among 40 major economies ranked by global consultants EY in their latest RECAI...
ENW offers £10 million for biggest ever flex appeal
Electricity North West today launches its biggest ever flexibility requirements, its eleventh and largest tender in the business’ history.
2018 saw the UK’s regional grids...
RES wins planners’ blessing for 100MW Durham battery
Clean energy developer RES has secured planning permission to progress a 99.9MW battery close to an existing substation near Spennymoor, County Durham.
The mega-device is...
ABB to plug 10MW Li-on battery into Ecotricity’s Gloucestershire wind farm
Power engineering multinational ABB Electrification is planning to locate its first UK battery, a 10MW/20MWh installation at a 6.9MWp wind farm owned by green...
Ofgem sets up independent group to advise on Capacity Market
Regulator Ofgem has announced the setting up of an independent advisory group on Britain’s Capacity Market.
The CM is the marketplace which establishes values payable...
Peaking blinder! Huge Hams Hall h-“amp hotel” approved near M6 toll; up to 1,750...
Future extension to around 1,750 MWh in total capacity is included in approval granted for the Hams Hall location.
With partners Luminous Energy, the Clapham-based...
Cremz! Gore Street plugs into its first battery in continental Europe
First-moving energy storage fund Gore Street today extended its portfolio of amp hotels and coulomb crèches beyond the British Isles, buying 90% of an...