Our expanding electricity network – and its expanding pool of owners – has raised new questions about how to allocate and manage risk relating to the cables on which the system depends. New Power took a deep dive into cable…
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Thrive takes on second battery, aims at wholesale, balancing and capacity markets
by New Power •
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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SmartEnergyGB meter claims ‘not misleading’ says ASA
by New Power •
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 interconnector expected to be out of action until 22 April; cable fault blamed
by New Power •
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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APPG report call for government: collect Net Zero data and set targets centrally, deliver locally
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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 to enter storage market, plans £100M investment in co-located PV + battery on existing and greenfield sites
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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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Flow battery developer Invinity upscales manufacturing capacity, starts project delivery for 5MWh unit in Oxford
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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 forced to provide Balancing Market data to join Capacity Market in future – respond to consultation
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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 backs up fast-charging with forecourt battery that will also become part of a virtual power plant
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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…