Energy company promises to pay customers to use electricity
(REPOST: The Guardian)A small energy company has launched a new tariff that will potentially pay customers to use its electricity when demand is low.
Octopus Energy embraces negative pricing with ‘plunge’ tariff
(REPOST: Clean energy News) The Agile Octopus plan offers customers an incentive to shift their energy use outside of the 4pm-7pm peak, with ‘plunge pricing’ being introduced to take advantage of periods when wholesale prices fall below zero as a result of excess generation across the UK.
Valuing Resilience Can Change the Breakeven Point for Solar-Plus-Storage
(REPOST: GTM)Power outages caused by extreme weather events serve as all-too-frequent reminders of the vulnerability of buildings to grid disruptions. But what if building owners accounted for the value of avoided grid outages when deciding whether to invest in projects that could supply uninterruptible power after natural disasters?
UK aggregator Kiwi Power completes 4.8MWh battery in South Wales
(REPOST: Energy Storage News)UK demand response and energy resource aggregation company Kiwi Power has unveiled its largest behind the meter battery to date with the completion of the 4MW / 4.8MWh Tesla battery at Cenin Renewables in south Wales.
Energy Storage Summit: What to expect at the London event
(REPOST: Energy Storage News)Regulators, policymakers, experts, developers, utilities, aggregators and of course, energy storage industry participants will fill out the Victoria Park Plaza in London next week to discuss everything impacting the deployment of energy storage.
South Australia marches on with pumped hydro, PV-plus-storage and commercial microgrid projects
(REPOST: Energy Storage News)Energy storage in the state of South Australia has continued its prolific pace of development with the announcement of two new grid-scale projects and a sizeable commercial and industrial (C&I) installation.
FERC ruling a ‘significant step’ towards wholesale market participation for energy storage
(REPOST:Energy Storage News)A unanimous vote taken by the US regulator FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) which would allow energy storage and other distributed energy resources to play into wholesale markets has been hailed as a “significant step” forward.
Big Batteries Are Becoming Much Cheaper
(REPOST: Oil Price.com)Batteries are hot right now. Energy storage was referred to as the Holy Grail of renewables by one industry executive, as it would solve its main problem: intermittency. No wonder then that everyone is working hard on storage.
Falling costs, coal and renewable co-location to drive ‘explosive’ UK battery storage growth
(REPOST: Clean Energy) Lauren Cook of Solar Media’s Market Research division spoke to CEN sister publication Energy-Storage.News this week on the publication of ‘UK Battery storage: Opportunities & Market Entry Strategies for 2018-2022’, a new report.
Electricity is core to our lives, but Are We Looking After it?
Interesting Radio 4 analysis of the importance of electricity in our lives and the ways in which its generation and distribution is becoming a defining issue of our times.