Thrive Renewables has acquired the rights to its second battery storage project.  The  20MW battery on Feeder Road in Bristol will offer flexibility, delivering 20-40MWh (one to two hours). Thrive is now working to identify partners for the construction phase which is…

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TV and radio advertisements from SmartEnergyGB that claimed smart meters would help users save energy are not misleading, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has decided. The advertisements said smart meters were  “…helping you save on your bills too” and “…her smart meter…

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BritNed, a 1GW interconnector linking GB with the Netherlands, is out of action. The cable was said by its owner to have experienced an unplanned outage starting at 6.36 Central European Time on 9 March. The company added, “Current indications…

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The government should collect granular energy data and make it available to local authorities so they can take a leading role in delivering a Net Zero economy, according to a new report from The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Energy Studies (PGES),…

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Foresight Solar Fund is to add co-located battery storage to some of its UK operating PV sites and look for new combined sites, in a change of investment strategy. The fund said it had identified “several sites with available land…

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Long-duration storage developer Invinity says it has doubled stack manufacturing capacity for its vanadium flow batteries at its Bathgate, UK and Vancouver, Canada, sites since December 2020 and plans to double it again by April. In a trading update, it…

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Distributed generation will have to be registered to take part in Balancing Market (BM) in order to take part in the Capacity Market, under new proposals from BEIS, and notify the system operator of plant ‘market position’ in every half-hour…

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Shell is expanding its reach into the smart power space. In February it announced the acquisition of virtual power plant (VPP) operator Next Kraftwerke, which remotely connects and manages over 10,000 decentralised energy units across Germany, Belgium, Austria, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy. Now…

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Balancing and settlement company Elexon has said that  13 domestic energy supply companies are under ‘special ficus’ to ensure their estimates of customer usage remain within accuracy limits. Accuracy has been affected during Covid, for example because companies were unable to…

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Diamond Transmission Partners is to pay £1.175B for a 25-year licence to own and operate the transmission line connecting Hornsea One to the onshore network. The company is a consortium comprising Mitsubishi Corporation and Japanese utility Chubu Electric Power. Hornsea One wind farm…

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