Tag taps 3 banks for £70m to set 100MW battery humming near Drax
Global clean energy enterprise TagEnergy has secured a debt package to finance its next UK-based battery energy storage system (BESS) project under an innovative...
NG’s flex trials reward battery homes with “up to 10 times” cash paid to...
Owners of home batteries earned up to ten times more cash from the National Grid’s Demand Flexibility Service (DFS) than participants who manually switched...
North Sea stashes: Authority issues first permits to sequester carbon
Fourteen high volume storage operators learned today they’ve received 21 licences between them to pump CO2 and other greenhouse gas pollutants into voids under...
EDF Renewables secures 3 grid-scale battery sites
EDF Renewables UK has secured planning approval for three new grid-scale battery sites in Kent, Norwich and Essex which will support the transition to...
Going down smaller hills; pair pump market for long-duration storage
Known as High-Density Hydro®, the innovation could offer 100MW in commercial operation this decade, the pair believe, through use of Mercia PR’s existing grid...
UK primed to become a global frontrunner in battery recycling
The UK has everything it needs to become a frontrunner in the global battery recycling industry but, to achieve this, there must be collaboration...
Gore Street chooses EDF to run British third battery
Energy investment innovators Gore Street Energy Storage Fund have chosen French-owned EDF to optimise clean power trades from its new 80MW battery.
Located at Stony,...
World’s biggest ohm game near Old Trafford: Manchester nets globe’s biggest grid-scale battery
Energy infrastructure developer Carlton Power this morning announced it has won planning approval to install the world’s biggest known electricity storage device on a...
Ecotricity to launch UK’s first electric airline, but with kerosene fuelling early flights
High profile green industrialist Dale Vince, pictured, is to launch what he intends to become the UK’s first all-electric airline.
Ecotricity, Vince’s 28-year old low...
NG zooms for industry views to speed renewables hook-ups
National Grid ESO has opened its latest round of consultation events, aimed at tapping industry wisdom to speed up connections for new renewables generators.
Over...
Cero and Enso agree financing on 50MW battery for Larks Green
The developers of Britain’s first solar farm now generating directly into the nation’s transmission network have agreed financial terms to add a 49.9MW battery...
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...
Masdar chooses Octopus’s Kraken to run £1 billion UK storage deal
Global green power developer Masdar has chosen Octopus Energy’s Kraken platform to manage its £1 billion investment in grid-scale batteries in the UK.
The deal...
Battery gunk recycler scores CAM first
A battery recycling start-up is claiming a UK first, announcing today that it has isolated a key component to make new lithium-ion batteries from...
Government backs three long-duration battery start ups with £30 million
Whitehall officials are stumping up £30 million in public support for a trio of UK battery innovators seeking to deploy longer-term power storage for...
UK’s biggest li-ion recycling plant set to open “within weeks”
Britain’s biggest facility for recycling lithium from batteries along with associated cobalt, manganese and & nickel, moved closer to reality today, as the Environment...
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...
VAT-exempt batteries: Solar industry hails Budget breakthrough
Leaders of the UK’s thousands of solar installers were today hailing a rare lobbying win conceded by the Treasury.
Among measures related to the spring...
Battery investors Gresham House charge up 20% full year growth
The fund thinks it is on course to be operating 1 GW of heavy duty batteries this year and 1.5 GW next.
Net asset value...