ABB and Rolls-Royce have formed a partnership to offer a microgrid solution for utility, commercial and industrial customers. The microgrids provides the overall control to allow users to combine power from CHP, diesel and gas-powered gensets, renewables and batteries to meet…

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National Grid ESO has set out a pathway to being able to operate the electricity system entirely on renewable sources by 2025. In order to achieve that goal, the system operator has to roll out new ways of managing system…

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National Grid ESO has sent out a request for information to potential providers of reactive power services in the Mersey area. The ESO says there is an increasing need to control high voltage in the region. It has seen an increasing need to absorb…

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Centrica Business Solutions has joined forces with the venturing arm of Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) to deliver industrial demand response capacity in Japan. Tepco Ventures will use Centrica’s FlexPond™ demand side response (DSR) platform to provide flexibility services for…

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Octopus Energy customers with an electric vehicle will be able to charge at low price periods using a ‘smart’ cable from Ohme. Once the cable is connected, the driver uses an app to set charging instructions (eg “On weekdays, charge my car…

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Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) is to use Piclo’s software platform to trade electricity flexibility – the first commercial agreement between Piclo and a UK distribution network operator (DNO). SSEN will use Piclo’s  flexibility marketplace to buy smart energy…

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BEIS is asking how it should structure a new funding stream – the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund – intended to help industry lower its energy and carbon costs. The new fund, announced in the autumn 2018 budget, has £315 million to…

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Reactive Technologies has won funding from the venture arm of Equinor (the Norwegian energy company previously known as Statoil) as a strategic investor. This is the latest development in Reactive’s major Series C funding round after Ingenious joined existing investors Octopus…

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Industry minister Richard Harrington MP has resigned so that he can support efforts to avoid a no-deal Brexit. In his resignation letter, the now ex-minister said, the government was “playing roulette” with peoples’ lives and livelihoods. “The clear message I…

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Generator Statkraft and storage company redT have announced a partnership to provide fully-financed behind-the-meter solar and energy storage infrastructure projects in the UK for commercial and industrial customers. The initial target is to install up to 10MWp of solar and…

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