Grid

The potential impact of electric vehicles (EVs) and the associated infrastructure on the UK’s energy system is being largely ignored, according to speakers at Solar Media’s Energy Storage Summit.

Ofgem has said it is minded to drastically cut embedded benefit payments to local embedded generators as part of what it says is a bid to protect consumers and prevent market distortion.

Centrica has begun its recruitment drive for businesses and homes wishing to participate in its local energy market trial in Cornwall.

The UK government must act urgently to support greater flexibility in the country’s power system or risk escalating system costs, the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) has warned.

The first grid scale installation of the Tesla Powerpack system in Europe has been completed in the UK by Camborne Energy Storage and is already providing ancillary services to the National Grid.

If UK businesses and public sector buildings realised the potential for load shifting and onsite generation the country could save billions on its collective energy bill by 2035, a new report from the Association for Decentralised Energy has claimed.