energy storage
The government should reverse the VAT rise for domestic energy storage systems
The government's overarching ambition is welcome, but we now need a detailed policy agenda to make net zero a reality, writes the REA's Dr Nina Skorupska
Charged up: Zenobe Energy secures £150m to support battery and EV roll out
Funding boost gives company access to around £450m to accelerate deployment of energy storage and EV infrastructure
Britain's biggest battery storage project to date goes live
Flexitricity has begun optimising Gresham House’s 50MW asset in South Yorkshire for a number of grid services markets
Energy storage: Global capacity predicted to surge by a third every year in 2020s
The consultancy predicts that US and China will drive global growth in cumulative energy storage capacity, which should top 740GWh by the end of the decade
Gravitricity starts assembling £1m Edinburgh energy storage system
Innovative energy storage system is designed to harness gravity and weights to provide grid balancing services
Boosting flexibility: Kaluza integrates EV chargers with domestic batteries
Kaluza will provide smart flexible energy services combining vehicle-to-grid chargers with domestic energy storage batteries
Hollow mountain: Highlands hydro storage plant to undergo £1m efficiency upgrade
Drax eyes key role for Cruachan pumped hydro storage station in managing growing levels of renewable electricity on the grid
Verkor joins race to deliver European battery gigafactory
Company backed by European engineering giants exits stealth mode with plan to deliver French gigafactories
Aceleron secures £2m boost in quest for waste-free batteries
UK developer secures investment to expand development of EV and grid storage batteries that can be repaired, reused and upgraded
Moixa secures £4.6m injection amid rapid growth in Japan
Smart energy storage software specialist claims it now manages more than 20,000 residential batteries in Japan
Government to ease energy storage planning woes
Ministers hope that move to cut red tape and streamline planning processes could help treble UK energy storage capacity
Highview Power secures £10m funding boost for 'world's largest' liquid air energy storage facility
Government funding will help support construction of 50MW facility in Trafford, Greater Manchester
Take the zero emission ferry? Plans for Isle of Wight green hydrogen project move forward
Ricardo and EMEC team up to support plans for solar powered hydrogen production facility that could enable island's 100 per cent renewables vision
'Exactly the sort of innovation water companies need to be embracing': Battery storage system installed at Preston plant
Two units "the size of shipping containers" are set to optimise onsite solar, provide power resilience and reduce emissions at the wastewater plant, which services 260,000 homes and businesses in North West England.
Flexitricity bags deal to manage Europe's 'largest' battery storage site
Firm will move the Gresham's lithium-ion 50MW/75MWh Thurock battery storage site's outputs between different markets from its Edinburgh control room.
'Beyond charging the car': Centrica teams up with Lotus for EV development drive
The deal comes as the Norfolk-based car manufacturer gets ready to launch its first EV, a luxury 'hypercar' that will be sold for more than £2 million.
Gravitricity to pilot £1m gravity-based energy storage system in Edinburgh
UK start-up signs land rental agreement to build its first energy storage demonstrator at the Port of Leith
Gold rush: Gravitricity secures £300,000 to scope out South African mines for energy storage potential
UK tech start-up gains Innovate UK backing to assess South Africa's former gold mines for energy storage capability
'Significant slowdown': European energy storage growth falls in 2019
Total of just 1GWh of energy storage added across Europe last year due to higher competition and lower prices, trade body warns
Charging to the front: Battery M&A activity continues on back of bullish long-term outlook for sector
Two major deals agreed this week, as new projections point to upbeat long term prospects for global battery sector
Barnsley 'virtual power plant' battery trial delivers green grid boost
Two-year project saw 40 batteries and solar rooftop sets fitted across a cluster of homes in bid to more flexibly manage electricity
'Net zero at lowest cost': Government unveils sweeping renewables reforms
Proposals to let onshore renewables compete for clean power contracts accompanied by new plans to boost energy storage and catalyse floating wind farm development
Pivot Power strikes landmark deal to build 100MW of UK battery storage
EDF's energy storage subsidiary teams up with tech firm Wärtsilä to deliver two 50MW batteries in Oxford and Kent by end of 2020
Freezing for the future: $46m boost for cryogenic energy storage pioneer Highview Power
Japanese heavy industries specialist SHI is investing in UK-based Highview Power, developer of the CRYOBattery