Highview Power has announced plans to construct a commercial cryogenic (liquid air) energy storage plant at a decommissioned thermal power station in North of England. The 50MW/250MWh project is said to be the first of a portfolio of projects in the UK and is…
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Moixa and Energia partner to offer battery/PV/EV combination
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Moixa, which manufactures smart solar batteries and GridShare software, has partnered with Irish energy supplier Energia to demonstrate how smart home batteries, rooftop solar and electric vehicles can deliver valuable flexibility to the grid. The partnership will create a 120kWh virtual power plant…
Origami takes on battery management
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A 9MW battery at the Port of Tilbury project will be managed using the Origami platform to generate value from Triad revenues, a fast frequency response (FFR) contract and a capacity market contract. The project, using NEC batteries, is 100%…
Scope of Ofgem’s Utility Warehouse investigation widens
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The regulator has expanded its investigation into supplier Utility Warehouse over customer service failings. Ofgem first opened an investigation in June last year (also the year when the company was awarded‘Utilities Provider of the Year’ at the 2018 Which? annual awards). It…
Total Gas & Power to take on customers from Rutherford Energy
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Ofgem has appointed Total Gas and Power to supply Rutherford Energy Supply’s 280 business customers and customers were switched on 19 October. The company went out of business earlier last week. Total Gas and Power has promised to honour any money…
Ovo takes stake in PPA platform Renewable Exchange
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Ovo has taken a minority stake in Renewable Exchange, an online digital marketplace and insight platform for power purchase agreements (PPAs). Founded in 2016, Bristol-based Renewable Exchange connects sellers and buyers, serving 717 independent generators in the UK representing 1GW of…
£1.9 million competition opens to develop energy industry’s new data sharing architecture
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Innovate UK has invited small innovative data companies to help solve the energy industry’s fundamental problem of exchanging digital energy information between each other and externally. The competition responds to a challenge set by the Energy Data Task Force to…
Industry welcomes move to shift storage to local planning regime
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Industry has welcomed proposals to ‘carve out’ storage from the Nationally Signiificant Infrastructure planning regime and allow projects (except pumped storage) to be consented by local authorities. The carve-out applies offshore as well as onshore, and gives planning responsibility to…
NGESO opens tender for non-BM reactive power
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National Grid ESO has invited ‘embedded’ providers (on the distribution network) to bid to provide reactive power services alongside transmission-connected providers. Tender submissions for the one-year contract must be sent by 8 November. This is the first time that the…
Ofgem abandons plans to use competition model for new HPC connection
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Ofgem’s plans to use competition to drive down the cost of expanding the electricity network have taken a further knock, as the regulator abandoned plans to use a ‘competition proxy’ for a new power line, Hinkley Seabrook, to be built…