Energy storage

Brixton residents to offer flexibility services to UKPN

Gresham House Energy Storage Fund announces £58m share offer

Centrica gains NG approval to use smart hot water tanks in virtual power plant

Centrica has partnered with an Oxford University spin out company to offer smart hot water tanks to its customers. The devices will learn the household's usage habits and only the heat water that is needed at certain times.

Tories pledge energy efficiency drive, EV boost and fusion by 2040

A new Future Homes Standard is to be introduced from 2025, aimed at meeting “world-leading energy efficiency standards”, the Conservatives have announced. The party has also pledged to invest up to £1 billion in green growth in the automotive industry and to develop a fusion plant by 2040.

Sembcorp combines energy businesses under one brand

Lord Deben: Politicians have finally grasped the reality of climate change

The chair of the Committee on Climate Change discusses how the climate emergency eventually sunk in for the country's leadership and how, if they fail, he will see them in court.

Developer calls for tax relief for renewables and batteries

Expert view: A whole system approach will improve energy system resilience

Mark Livingstone, Director, Navigant To deal with these mounting pressures, it will be important to

Subsidy-free solar ‘coming of age’

Keep calm and connect with customers

Watching the ongoing political car crash that is Westminster, it’s hard to keep track of the constitutional permutations, let alone what all this might mean for utilities, says Suzanne Heneghan

Low-carbon technologies struggling to scale up

Battery capacity is the issue of the moment

Last month’s blackout highlighted the importance of energy storage – but investors must judge whether the technology is mature enough.

Government awards £7m to explore low-carbon hydrogen

B is now for blackout – but how will this backstop be solved?

Utility Week magazine editor Suzanne Heneghan considers what next for the energy system following Britain's biggest blackout in a decade

‘National conversation’ needed over cost of resilience

The public may have to consider paying for more back up power in order to prevent a repeat of the 9 August blackout, energy experts have warned following the publication of the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) report into the incident.