Plans for the design of the largest smart city-wide energy system in the UK have been unveiled. The £2m scheme will cut energy bills and provide green heat, electricity and transport for residents. The Peterborough Integrated Renewables Infrastructure project (PIRI) combines a next generation heat network, electricity network and EV…

Dr Jonathan Scurlock is the NFU’s chief renewable energy and climate change adviser. He writes: I have seen the future of electricity networks… and it’s impressively clean and quiet. One of the biggest challenges to decarbonising electricity generation using intermittent renewables like wind and solar power is their low “capacity…

London-based Battery Energy Storage Solutions Ltd (“BESS”) was established in March 2017 by an executive team with extensive energy sector experience. The funding will enable the business to execute its strategy of becoming one of the UK’s largest independent owners and operators of battery storage assets. The short term strategy…

During the fourth quarter of 2019, Azelio has prepared its verification project with its strategic partner, the state-owned Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy, Masen, at Ouarzazate Solar Power Station (also known as Noor Power Station) in Morocco, one of the world’s biggest. Since two modules comprising Azelio’s energy-storage solution were…

The technology group Wärtsilä will optimise the energy system of the Fekola Mine, located in a remote region in southwest Mali. This is needed to improve the mine’s operations, reduce fuel consumption, and lessen the carbon emissions. Wärtsilä has been contracted to design and engineer a cutting-edge 17MW/15MWh energy storage…

Azelio has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the US company BIODICO INC (Biodico) for a project in Atascadero, California. The MoU frameworks a collaboration over a capacity of about 120 MWe of Azelio’s energy storage technology in the US market until 2024. This capacity is distributed along the…

Highlights Power Ledger has signed the first large-scale commercial roll out of its technology. Wholesale energy retailer Powerclub will integrate Power Ledger’s blockchain-based technology, including its Virtual Power Plant (VPP) energy trading application. Powerclub’s Members will be able to pool their excess solar and battery storage to a VPP while…

City skyscrapers could become green batteries of the future – thanks to a new form of energy storage patented by a UK firm. Edinburgh start-up Gravitricity has developed an innovative energy battery which works by raising multiple heavy weights – totalling up to 12,000 tonnes – in a deep shaft…

Energy storage can help mitigate climate change, but it is still on low levels and needs to triple by 2050 to keep global warming below 2°C.  To do this we need to look at innovative ways of speeding up the process. Could energy-storage-as-a-service be one of the solutions?  Reforming our…

German solar energy storage maker Sonnen GmbH could start considering an IPO as early as 2017 to grow its international presence and develop additional services and business models. In a recent interview with Energy Storage News, Sonnen CEO Christoph Ostermann said that the company is relatively relaxed on the timeline – expecting…