energy storage
Power
Shortage of grid contracts dampening storage market
Oversubscription for National Grid’s Enhanced Frequency Response service will result in uncertainty for a large proportion of battery developers when the first contracts are awarded on 26 August, Smartest Energy has warned.
Power
Domestic storage could change design rules for retrofit PV
The design rules for retrofit photovoltaic installations in social housing schemes could be changed to take into account domestic energy storage.
Heat
Editor’s weekly: The department is dead, long live the department!
Network editor Jane Gray reviews the demise of Decc and the rise of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Power
Hoppecke launch explosion-proof EV battery
Industrial battery system manufacturer Hoppecke Industrial Batteries has launched an explosion-proof battery and charger for use in electric and hybrid vehicles.
Policy & Regulation
Storage needs ‘cap and floor’ to cut revenue risk
A ‘cap and floor’ mechanism would help drive cost-effective investment in energy storage to enable it to deliver £2.4 billion of consumer savings.
Power
Eaton launches UK storage roadshow
Industrial products and energy management company Eaton has launched a UK roadshow to promote its growing portfolio of energy storage solutions.
Innovation, technology & operations
Tie-up renewables with energy storage
Britain must adopt energy storage to cut payback times for domestic generation from renewables, argues Stephen Irish.
Heat
Understanding EFR
Just how valuable is National Grid's new frequency response service to the future energy system? Andrew Howe explores.
Technology & Operations
Electricity storage: a new business case perspective
Understanding the commercial opportunities of storage is a real challenge but work is under way to clear the fog for investors and new entrants.
Gas
Scottish Power pilots smart batteries in customer homes
Scottish Power has teamed up with residential energy storage firm Moixa and Bill Save UK to pilot smart energy storage batteries in customers’ homes.
Gas
RES teams up with National Grid to offer frequency response service
Renewable Energy Systems (RES) is to provide 20MW of frequency response to the national transmission network from battery storage for the first time in the UK.
Power
Nissan launches first vehicle to grid storage trial
Automotive company Nissan will connect 100 vehicle-to-grid (V2G) units across the UK in the first ever trial of electric vehicles as mobile energy storage.
Heat
Eon to test storage potential for commercial customers
Energy supplier Eon is to install a redT vanadium redox flow demonstration battery in Somerset as part of a research project to understand the potential benefits of storage to commercial customers.
Power
Nissan enters domestic storage market with xStorage
Car manufacturer Nissan has entered the domestic energy storage market in partnership with power management company Eaton, with the launch of its xStorage battery storage unit.
Power
Storage manufacturer secures £3.2m private investment
Lithium-ion energy storage developer Hyperdrive Innovation has secured £3.2 million of investment to develop its product range and improve manufacturing processes.
Strategy & Management
Camborne targets storage rollout through strategic partnership
Large-scale energy storage developer Camborne Energy Storage has announced two new partnerships to drive a “significant” rollout of energy storage in the UK over the next two years.
Power
EV uptake adding to lithium price spike
The global uptake in electric vehicles is contributing to the price of materials used to make lithium batteries, information specialist Roskill has revealed.
Heat
Join the dots: a talk with the NIC’s Philip Graham
Jane Gray speaks with National Infrastructure Commission chief executive Philip Graham about his plan for electricity system transformation and its links to national infrastructure needs.
Gas
RedT accelerates towards energy storage deployment
Energy storage technology company RedT Energy has successfully transitioned to become a pure energy storage business ready to accelerate the deployment of its flow battery technology in the coming year.
Gas
Storage will deliver sub-second flexibility
ABB's Colin green extols the virtues of battery energy storage systems for maintaining grid stability.
Power
Powervault gears up for smart meter rollout with new storage system
Domestic energy storage company Powervault has launched the second generation of its energy storage system, to prepare for the introduction of smart tariffs.
Gas
Virtual energy storage startup get £500,000 seed funding
UK start-up Upside has secured £545,000 from angel investors to expand its enterprise and bring its virtual energy storage proposition to market.
Gas
ETI launches hydrogen storage project
The Energy Technologies Institute has launched a new phase of an investigation into the use of UK salt caverns for the storage of hydrogen gas.
Power
Stacking storage value
Julian Jansen says the key to successful distributed storage businesses will be ‘value stacking’.
Power
Energy Potential: emerging applications of energy storage
The energy storage market is at a tipping point with technologies rapidly proving their worth and business models for deployment taking shape.
Policy & Regulation
Ofgem rejects calls to license energy storage
Regulator Ofgem has ruled out allowing network companies to own and operate storage.
Heat
Energy storage could cut bills by £50 by 2030, says Carbon Trust
Full utilisation of energy storage has the potential to cut household electricity bills by £50 a year through a system-wide saving of £2.4 billion, a new report by the Carbon Trust has claimed.
Power
NIC calls for raft of regulatory changes
The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has called for a raft of regulatory changes to create a level playing field that would allow energy storage and demand flexibility to ensure security in the UK’s future low-carbon energy system.
Policy & Regulation
MPs hear row over energy storage
An industry row over the best way to develop energy storage and the role of DNOs broke out at a select committee hearing this week.