Centrica to use hot water tanks for frequency response in VPP
Centrica is to absorb “thousands” of residential hot water tanks into its virtual power plant (VPP) to provide flexibility to the grid.
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Bozhidar Bozhkov, head of Markets for Asset Optimisation at SmartestEnergy, looks at how battery storage has evolved in the past two years and what the market is like now.
Europe’s balancing markets still have ‘significant room’ for improvement
Balancing markets throughout Europe are opening up to decentralised power, but there is still “significant room” for mechanisms to improve further.
Flexibility opportunity worth £6 billion by 2030 as price cannibalisation concerns brushed off
The balancing and frequency markets will double in value by 2030 as the evolution of the power market creates £6 billion of investment opportunity for battery storage and other flexible and distributed generation assets.
Tesla and Anesco battery combination to deliver frequency response and national capacity
Food wholesaler Philip Dennis Foodservice has installed energy storage units totalling over 4MW at its Barnstaple offices in an effort to generate revenue from grid services, rather than making savings from behind-the-meter activity.
Ørsted makes battery storage splash with 20MW project
Ørsted, formerly DONG Energy, has confirmed its entry into the UK battery storage market with a new 20MW project near Liverpool.
EirGrid sets out conditions for 300MW Irish grid service procurement
Storage developers eyeing opportunities in Ireland’s DS3 programme will be able to bid for six-year contracts providing frequency response and reserve services in September when transmission system operator EirGrid will launch a new procurement process.
Barn Energy celebrates success of battery co-location with hydropower
Battery energy storage is now being used at two of the largest river hydro projects to deliver a range of grid services, load shifting and energy trading, with a third planned for later this year by Barn Energy.
Kiwi Power completes largest behind the meter battery to date
Kiwi Power has unveiled its largest behind the meter battery to date with the completion of the 4MW / 4.8MWh Tesla battery at Cenin Renewables in south Wales.