NG and Piclo ally to boost local flex
Flexibility trading pioneer Piclo and National Grid’s Electricity Distribution division today launched a strategic partnership, aimed at easing access for Flexibility Service Providers (FSPs)...
UK storage pipeline charges to 85GW record
Electricity storage projects at all stages of development – from planning application on paper to full operation, including trading – have surged to record...
Demand Flexibility Service: Piclo and CUB working together to unlock commercial and industrial flexibility
Flexibility - the ability to change electricity generation or use - will be at the heart of the UK’s electricity system in the years...
Vision thing: Government launches aspirations for competitive CCUS
Ministers are sharpening their long-term vision of creating a competitive UK market for carbon capture and storage (CCUS).
In a policy programme dubbed CCUS Vision,...
Heat pumps: NG launches second round of Equinox DSR trials
National Grid has kicked off the second stage of its award-winning Equinox DSR pilots after recruiting over 1,000 homes equipped with heat pumps.
During the...
Flexibility is key to reach a more sustainable future GridBeyond’s energy report says
The 2021- 2023 energy crisis and its impact on the global energy system, increased prices in oil, gas and electricity markets. As a result....
ABB and Gravitricity mine potential of hoist-delivered batteries
Energy storage innovators Gravitricity have signed a development deal with global engineers ABB designed to advance both parties' hoists-as-batteries offer.
Re-opening old mine shafts across...
ENGIE & Canadian Solar bring two 2-hour grid batteries to Scotland
French-based power supplier ENGIE has signed a deal with green generator Canadian Solar’s e-Storage offshoot to construct two 50MW/100MWh, two-hour duration battery sites in...
Solid as sodium: Lancs battery pioneers approach volume output, thanks to Italian partners
British battery technologists have co-developed a manufacturing process easing automation in making next-generation cells based on sodium-metal-chloride chemistry.
LiNA Energy, a privately held, six-year old...
Battery innovators store up their share of Faraday challenge’s £11 million
Innovators with cutting edge battery tech ideas and projects have been awarded grants of up to £907k by the Faraday Battery Challenge (FBC).
Twenty pioneering...
Piclo flexes to the Max, plans global trades for 2024
Trading platform provider Piclo is readying for launch a product that will enable its clients to trade flexibility capacity on global markets.
Starting in the...
Regulator floats regional ‘think-and-do’ planners to spur cleaner networks
Ofgem is setting up a network of regional planners to improve the UK’s energy transition, in a bid to secure greater resilience in bi-directional...
NG drops checks on 20GW of battery plug-ins, pledges “6 Hinkley Cs” of quicker...
Backbone electricity shifter National Grid ESO today pledged cuts as high as four years in delays to connect up to 20GW of utility-scale storage,...
Second year for nation’s flex trials, as NG-ESO offers £3 per kWh
Ofgem’s approval on Friday means that today sees a repeat of cash incentives offered to businesses and homes shifting electricity loads outside peak times.
National...
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...
Cleverer net charges & more BM players could fast-track UK’s energy transition: Cornwall &...
Reforming fees charged to use the electricity network could accelerate cost-effective decarbonisation of Britain’s electricity system, putting the UK back on track meet its...
Flex Assure launches code to boost SMEs’ trust in micro-flex trades
Today sees the launch of a new code of conduct, designed to protect homes and small businesses dipping their toes in the flexibility market,...
Innova hails planners’ consent for 400MW Carlisle battery
Renewable energy firm Innova is celebrating Cumberland Council’s grant of planning permission for its two-hour grid-scale storage battery, to be located at Blackdyke, near...
“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...
NG flexes to load up with homes, happy to shift loads
National Grid’s electricity distribution arm is flexing its commercial muscle, again seeking to embrace homes – or their aggregators – looking to time-shift their...