​Installation of smart battery systems is underway on the Isles of Scilly in the first stage of a £10.8 million project to demonstrate how solar, energy storage and other smart energy resources can transform the energy system of an island grid.

​National Grid has used a new web-based platform to dispatch ancillary services using battery storage in the first example of the new system being implemented across its reserve products.

​Ofgem has set out its plans to overhaul the charging arrangements of the UK energy system to allocate more costs to distributed generation to reflect the ongoing changes in the sector.

The UK government has put forward a future vision for small-scale renewables which places the generators at the heart of local flexibility and balancing markets.

​The UK has taken ‘a major step’ towards the electric vehicle revolution according to the government after the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act completed its passage through parliament.

Solo Energy is to launch a ‘free battery’ business model to UK homeowners after carrying out a pilot in Orkney that saw solar and storage systems deployed on 30 properties to boost self-consumption and overcome grid constraints.​

The smart meter roll out has all the signs of a car crash according to MPs from the UK’s two leading political parties, with doubts growing that the 2020 deadline will be kept to by the government.

British retailer Marks & Spencer has partnered with asset owner and clean energy supplier Octopus, outlining a bold ambition to “transform” the energy market.

​Pivot Power has had the first of its 2GW network of battery storage projects approved by Test Valley Borough Council, paving the way for the company’s first electric vehicle (EV) charging hub powered by energy storage to be just outside Southampton.