Storage heavyweights Highview raise £300 million to bring UK’s biggest LAES battery to Manchester
Compressed gas storage specialists Highview Power have raised £300 million from investors including Centrica & the UK Infrastructure Bank to build Britain’s first grid-scale...
Exploring the CPPA landscape with Neil Garland: Insights and Outlook
In recent years, the landscape of corporate Power Purchase Agreements (CPPAs) in Great Britain and Ireland has undergone significant transformation. As businesses increasingly turn...
Ørsted to pump Hornsea 3 juice into 600MWh battery near Norwich
Wind power developers Ørsted are committing to store electricity from their 1.2GW Hornsea 3 marine farm next to a substation at Swardeston, near Norwich
The...
Altilium & Enva partner to recycle EV battery materials
Clean metals group Altilium is teaming up with recycling specialist Enva to boost the recycling of EV batteries.
As the number of electric vehicles and...
Octopus & Gresham House squirt ink on world’s biggest battery leasing deal
Octopus, Britain’s largest electricity provider, has signed a record-breaking battery leasing deal with Gresham House Energy Storage Fund plc (GRID), employing the energyco’s Kraken...
Aggreko upscales battery investment to $200m to support the energy transition
Aggreko has increased its global investment in mobile battery energy storage solutions (BESS) to around $200m, allowing more industries to access the latest in...
ENW seeks spring flex contracts
Electricity North West has launched its spring 2024 contracts for flexibility services, seeking to better the £20million they secured over the past year towards...
Roadnight Taylor sees huge growth in grid risk services
Independent UK specialist grid consultancy, Roadnight Taylor has announced a surge in demand for its due diligence service that helps investors understand the grid...
Potting the green: Aussie-Canadian link to purge sodium sulphate from cathode making
Two firms innovating in power storage say their new collaboration can speed worldwide deployment of batteries, made cleaner and with less waste.
Chemicals-to-energy combine Worley...
“Attendant, is this plane flying on batteries? I’m 77% persuaded, then. Maybe 100% by...
As many as 82% of British passengers would be open now to flying on a hydrogen-powered plane, and 77% would consider flying on planes...
Long-duration storage heavyweight RheEnergise drops in for Plymouth pilot
RheEnergise, UK pioneers of long-duration power storage using its patented super-dense fluid, is building its first proof-of-concept plant at a mine at Cornwood, near...
Harmony Energy receives £10m credit facility from Triodos Bank UK
Battery storage developer Harmony Energy has received credit facility of up to £10m from sustainable bank, Triodos, to support the development of new projects...
Ministry consults on ‘energy smart’ devices to cut consumers’ bills
Energy ministry D-ESNZ today launches a view-seeking exercise, aimed at boosting users’ confidence in adopting smart devices for workplaces and homes. Embedding power flexibility...
Watt -erloo sunset: ambitious electricity project to speed decarbonisation of River Thames
Power storage’s expanding acronym soup of competing technologies received another ingredient this morning. On Britain's rivers, V2G may soon include “vessel-to-grid”, as an alternative...
Hadrian’s wally: B6 boundary implicated in <£1 Bn curtailment waste, says battery firm
Faster deployment of grid-scale proven battery technology could spare Britain’s power consumers over £730 million in curtailment fees wasted annually in temporarily disconnecting Scotland’s...
Flex partners bring EV charging into grid’s STOR reserve for first time
Power storage aggregators Flexitricity say they've teamed up with a leading EV charging operator to bring vehicle-to-grid (V2G) flexibility into the National Grid’s reserve...
Conrad Energy closes UK’s first standalone greenfield financing of two Pathfinder synchronous condenser projects...
Conrad Energy is pleased to announce that it has successfully closed the greenfield financing of its two Pathfinder synchronous condenser projects located in the...
NG-DSO reveals 2-year action plan, offers more revenue stacking for flex
National Grid’s distribution division today launches its two-year action plan for its Distribution System Operator (DSO). Expanded provision for revenue stacking by flex providers...
ENW, Piclo & Electron team up to maximise flex market access
Distribution grid operator Electricity North West is partnering with flex innovators Piclo & trading software firm Electron to help flexibility service providers (FSPs) maximise...
Octopus leads V2G charge, plugs clients’ EVs into Balancing Mechanism
Octopus Energy has deepened its vehicle-to-grid experience, integrating electric cars owned by its customers into the National Grid’s Balancing Mechanism.
The BM uses flexible assets...