Commercial operation has started on the 100MW/331MWh Bramley battery energy storage system (BESS), a project in the UK deployed by owner-operator BW ESS, developer Penso Power and BESS provider Sungrow.
The solar industry “warmly” welcomes RenewableUK chief executive Dan McGrail’s appointment as interim CEO of Great British Energy.
Germany and the UK are currently Europe’s ‘hottest’ markets for battery storage, but others present exciting opportunities, too.
Despite a 12% year-on-year fall in the capacity of newly submitted planning applications in 2024, there is still a strong interest in the UK energy storage market as a whole.
The Microgeneration Certification Scheme has stated that January 2025 was a record month, owing partly to an uptick in battery installations.
On a panel at the Energy Storage Summit in London, head of connections policy at Ofgem said grid connection reforms will ultimately mean “a clearer signal to networks about what to build”.
“To toll or not to toll seems to be the question. Rather the question you should be asking is with whom and how much,” a panellist at the Energy Storage Summit EU in London said today (19 February).
“We need to allow the technology to show us what the most cost effective solution for 10-20-hour duration energy storage is”, managing director of Adaptogen Capital James Mills says.
Flexible solar manufacturer Power Roll and scientists from the University of Sheffield have published a new paper highlighting the potential of thin-film solar cells using perovskites.
In this blog, we take a deep dive into the research proving that solar farms can actually have a very positive impact on biodiversity.
