Penso Power and Luminous Energy have secured planning approval for a battery site with 350MW/1750MWh connection capacity at Hams Hall, close to the M6 Toll in North Warwickshire. The project is expected to provide a range of services including potentially…

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WPD is to pay redress of £14.9 million after failing to provide information, advice and services to customers on its Priority Services Register. It failed to meet its obligations to provide information to some of its most vulnerable customers and…

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Battery storage projects that have two hours of storage had average earnings equivalent to £200k per MW per annum between January and March 2022, trading ancillary services and wholesale energy, according to energy storage investor and operator Harmony Energy Income…

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Construction has begun at the 49.9MW Sutton Bridge solar farm, EDF Renewables’ first major solar project in the UK, which is being built by Anesco. Planning permission was granted in March 2021 generation is expected to begin by late 2022.…

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Simec Atlantis Energy (SAE) has abandoned plans to convert a coal-fired power station at Uskmouth to burn pelletised waste. Instead, the company plans to install a 230MW battery on the site. The company announced plans to convert the existing power…

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Zenobe has reached financial close on a 50MW battery to be sited at Wishaw, North Lanarkshire – the largest in Scotland. The battery has started construction with plans to go live by the end of 2022. It will be the…

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Centrica is due to begin a trial this September in which controllable storage heaters will provide demand-side response when needed, by dialling down their demand. In partnership with Glen Dimplex, this trial will initially bring use 2.5MW of storage heater…

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UK Power Networks (UKPN) has opened up registration for flexible power operators to provide 292MW of flexible power across 113 different sites in London, the East and South East of England. The network is offering more than £13 million for…

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NextEnergy Solar Fund has announced its first site for a battery co-located with solar PV. The project will extend its existing 11MW North Norfolk solar farm to include a 6MW/12MWh battery system. It already has planning permission for battery system…

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A full scale project that converts non-recycylable waste plastics to hydrogen could be built in County Tipperary in the Republic of Ireland, after Hydrogen Utopia International (HUI) reached an agreement with Trifol Resources Limited (TRL). The agreement includes a site…

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