Energy Usage

Battery storage and smart technologies are to be rolled out to homes in the Irish town of Dingle as part of a new trial to test their potential to support the use of variable renewable energy supply resources and smart connection to the Irish electricity grid.

Eurelectric has pledged to reach carbon neutrality within Europe’s power supply “well before” the year 2050.

Great Britain’s electricity networks will collaborate on new markets for flexibility services to rival the need for traditional upgrade investments, developing a national smart grid which could deliver £17 billion back to the economy by 2050.

Projects supporting markets for flexibility have been endorsed by Ofgem within the regulator’s Network Innovation Competition (NIC).

Clean energy utility Good Energy is to install its first battery storage project for long-time partner the Eden Project.

The Green Investment Group has today launched a new service to help medium and large energy users adopt distributed energy systems.

LO3 Energy has launched what it has labelled as a patented blockchain software and transaction system.

Northern Powergrid is to plough £1.9 million into the creation of a smart energy grid across its network, allowing its eight million customers to trade power and services using their home solar, battery systems and electric vehicles.

The government’s new industrial strategy has made local smart energy systems one of its priority areas of development.

Centrica has pitched its future vision of the UK’s business energy market, suggesting that greater distributed power could save the economy billions, create thousands of jobs and help boost productivity.