Invinity picks ‘ideal partner’ Frontier Power for LDES cap-and-floor scheme bids
Invinity Energy Systems and Frontier Power have partnered to deploy vanadium flow batteries under the UK Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) procurement process.
Short duration flexibility to save UK £10 billion a year
“Short duration flexibility has a massive role to play in reducing the costs of the Great British energy system, saving £10 billion a year by 2050,” Duncan Stone said this morning at the Energy Storage Summit 2025 in the UK.
Industry answers key questions at Energy Storage Summit opening morning
On the first morning of the Energy Storage Summit, an expert panel faced pressing questions from Europe’s energy storage professionals.
Eku Energy CEO on risk dynamics and making storage eligible for ‘lowest cost of capital’
Investor Macquarie’s storage platform Eku Energy’s market entry and strategy speaks to the broader emergence of storage as an infrastructure asset, which its CEO discussed with us, also giving his views on BESS capex and procurement.
Constantine Energy Storage appoints optimisers for five 57MW battery assets
UK battery storage platform Constantine Energy Storage (CES) has appointed two firms to optimise five of its battery assets in the UK.
Eku Energy energises 111MWh of BESS capacity
Battery energy storage system (BESS) owner-operator Eku Energy has announced that it has successfully energised two energy storage assets in England.
Solar industry cautiously backs Ofgem’s grid connection reform approval
Energy regulator Ofgem has approved grid connection reform, a move that solar trade association Solar Energy UK supports.
Aura Power lands £33.1 million finance for 40MW solar project
Renewable energy developer Aura Power has reached financial close on the Burtree Lane solar project thanks to a deal with Rabobank.
Habitat Energy signs optimisation agreement with Octopus for 50MW/100MWh Texas BESS
Energy storage optimisation specialist Habitat Energy has signed an agreement with Octopus Energy US to optimise a 50MW/100MWh tolled battery energy storge system (BESS) in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market.
Apatura, Exagen, Firstway and others land 750MW of BESS planning consent in GB
A roundup of recent BESS development planning consent news in the Great Britain (GB) market this week, from the pages of our sister site Solar Power Portal.
