Pulse Clean Energy is decommissioning nine diesel generation sites and repurposing them as grid-scale battery storage assets. The changeout is part of its ambition to operate more than 1GW of energy storage assets across multiple markets. Pulse Clean Energy is…

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Northern Powergrid has named 19 areas where it wants to pay customers to change their power generation or consumption patterns in a way that helps to manage peaks in generation and demand on the electricity network. It aims to procure…

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Scottish Water’s commercial subsidiary Scottish Water Horizons has completed work on a 800kWh battery to store energy generated from 1MW of solar panels, which have recently been installed at the waste water treatment works that serves the city of Perth.…

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The government has opened a £5 million call for tenders, looking for technologies which will enable the commercialisation and deployment of Hydrogen biomass energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) at scale. BEIS says the programme is looking for innovation…

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From March 2023, allocation rounds for Contracts for Difference (CfDs) for new renewable generation will be every year, instead of every two years, BEIS has announced. CfDs are 15-year private law contracts between electricity generators and the government-owned Low Carbon…

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In its half-year presentation in November SSE hailed its thermal plant portfolio as improving group earnings stability via capacity contracts, and providing a “natural hedge” against lower wind output or higher prices. That proved true in the nine months to…

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Thrive Renewables has signed construction contracts for a 20MW battery in Bristol. The Feeder Rd project was acquired from developer Aura Power, and Thrive has also been working with renewables consultancy, Everoze, which is acting as a technical advisor on…

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Glasgow Airport has announced plans for a 30acre ground-mounted solar farm on its site. The c.15MW solar farm is already in the early stages of development and is expected to be operational by summer 2023, subject to planning approval. It…

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There was a “bumper crop” of energy sector mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Europe in 2021, notably in the power and transmission subsector, according to a new survey by law firm CMS. The report suggested that the coming year is…

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The government has announced support measures to help ease the effect of a huge 54% increase in energy bills, after Ofgem raised the price cap by £693 to £1,971 from April. Prepayment customers will see their cap rise from£1,309 to…

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