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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Balancing Mechanism costs rocket three times on 2020’s, as suppliers face BUUoS squeeze
A ‘perfect storm’ of surging world demand for gas, reviving power demand, low UK renewables generation and 2021's cull of retailers has pushed costs...
Battery bonanza: Twenty-fold storage expansion to characterise the world in the 2020s, say Bloomberg
Energy practitioners all sense it. Now a leading consultancy is the latest to put numbers around the intuition: “The 2020s are the decade of...
Wake up to 8-hour storage: Ceres and RFC enjoy breakfast of (ch)Amps &...
Fuel cell firm Ceres Power this morning teamed up with RFC Power, an Imperial College spin-off, in quest of the world’s most efficient flow...
World’s biggest continuous ultracapacitor on Teesside “super-stabilises” National Grid
A clever piece of power storage engineering from innovators Reactive Technologies has today dramatically upped stability capabilities on the National Grid.
The world’s biggest continuously...