Storage

Energy storage is the next obvious addition to solar plants in the UK. Elizabeth Reid of law firm Bird & Bird takes a look at some of the drivers, opportunities – and regulatory obstacles.

Foresight Group has more UK battery storage projects firmly its crosshairs and could branch out into both C&I and co-located projects in the near future.

The UK solar market is beginning to defy difficult conditions as developers emerge with new, post-subsidy models.

Foresight Group has sealed its maiden battery storage purchase, acquiring the 35MW RES-built Port of Tyne project.

As BEIS prepares for its seventh energy minister in six years, Liam Stoker argues that as long as the government’s ministerial merry-go-round continues the green economy is being taken for a ride.

National Grid has unveiled plans to reform its grid balancing services, including a new frequency response product to be unveiled next year.

With the Renewable Obligation Certificate (ROC) scheme for UK based solar incentives finishing on 31 March 2017, the domestic sector once again showed its resilience by installing a healthy 640MW during Q1 2017.

Today’s surprise general election result of a hung parliament has led to increasing concern within the renewables industry that the government’s eagerly anticipated Clean Growth Plan (CGP) could be delayed once more.

With the UK’s Renewables Obligation (RO) now closed for large solar projects, energy storage takes the position of the most active sector in the UK energy market. As with any new technology, we have seen a lot of build up over the past few years, with much speculation about when the utility-scale market will take off, and how big it will be.

Renewables energy generation records have tumbled once more in the UK as low carbon electricity sources outperformed fossil fuels for the first time ever.