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Staunch greenwash sleaze? Track carbon through grid in real time, say Elexon and ES...

Restoring integrity to tarnished "clean power" certificates can be best guaranteed with new rules and new tech, tracking carbon from seed to flower through...

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...

Ofgem warns Balancing Mechanism players

Rocketing costs of last-minute interventions needed to balance Britain’s power grid have prompted an Ofgem warning that it stands ready to tighten market rules...

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...

“Breakthrough moment” sees renewables allowed for first time to balance UK grid

Britain’s renewable power generators have this week been authorised to provide balancing and stability services to the nation’s grid, in a claimed ‘game-changing’ world’s...

Capacity Market bids bust six-year record, secure 42.4GW for 2025

 Britain’s latest Capacity Market auction has secured 42.4GW for delivery in FY 2025-26, at a record price of £30.59 per kW per year.   On the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...