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Gresham House to create £200m battery investment fund

The company said the lithium-ion batteries will be used soak up surplus generation from intermittent renewables and support their integration into the energy system by providing balancing services to National Grid.

6 years ago

Doubts raised over use of hydrogen to balance power grid

Several industry figures have raised doubts over the potential for hydrogen to be used as a form of large-scale seasonal energy storage to help balance the power grid.

6 years ago

Origami Energy to connect 19MW of battery assets

Origami Energy has announced it will “intelligently” connect 19MW of battery assets to energy markets

6 years ago

The balancing mechanism opens up to small generators and aggregators

As the system operator for the transmission network, National Grid is responsible for ensuring supply

6 years ago

Getting Ahead in the Diversifying Energy Market

The industry is seeing new competition from non-traditional companies selling power through utility-independent subsidiaries. To

6 years ago

Interview: Alan Whitehead, Labour shadow energy minister

MPs returned to Westminster last week for a new parliamentary year. But while Brexit may

6 years ago

V2G trial launched to build the ‘smart grid of the future’

A group led by Octopus Energy has launched a trial which involves turning electric vehicles

6 years ago

Former Tesla VP appointed adviser of Solo Energy

The former vice-president of Tesla EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), Ben Hill, has been appointed commercial and technical adviser of energy storage specialists, Solo Energy.

6 years ago

Residential flexibility can ‘save £6.9bn’ a year, report finds

A report into decarbonisation by Imperial College London and Ovo Energy has found increasing residential flexibility could cut costs by almost £7 billion.

6 years ago

Ofgem approves preparations for European balancing platform

Ofgem has approved a package of reforms to the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) being introduced in preparation for a new Europe-wide balancing platform.

6 years ago

UK Power Networks proposes ‘flexibility first’ doctrine

UK Power Networks has proposed adopting a “flexibility first” approach to the delivery of extra

6 years ago

First virtual power plant enters balancing mechanism

A 168MW virtual power plant operated by smart energy firm Limejump has become the first balancing mechanism unit (BMU) to be aggregated across multiple grid supply points.

6 years ago

Eon launches future energy smart home project

Eon is collaborating with property developer Berkeley Homes to pilot the “Future Energy Home” research

6 years ago

Market View: Is field services management the answer to RIIO restrictions?

2021 might seem like a long way off, but forward-thinking energy companies will already have

6 years ago

National Grid lays out plans to widen access to balancing mechanism

National Grid has published a roadmap laying out its plans to widen access to the balancing mechanism.

6 years ago

Centrica drives EV business with investment in Israeli firm

Centrica has boosted its electric vehicle (EV) business by investing in an Israeli charging operating system provider Driivz.

6 years ago

The case for network reform

Towards the end of last month, Ofgem proposed the second of two major reviews into

6 years ago

Roundtable: Creating Infrastructure Policy in an Uncertain World

There was once a time when you could be reasonably certain about where the energy

6 years ago

Energy storage: the potential and the pitfalls

Distributed energy resources are driving change in the utility sector worldwide as the ways in

6 years ago

Ofgem’s grid capacity call to arms: the industry must seize this opportunity

Britain faces its biggest revolution in energy for over a century, with the shift to

6 years ago