
The battery manufacturer has earmarked £2 million for UK and US manufacturing, but has not specified how much will be invested in Britain.

The UK needs more battery storage, but megawatts alone don't tell the whole story. Location, duration and grid value must shape what gets built.

The Nottinghamshire development will combine 450MW of solar generation with 150MW of battery storage.

DTGen has acquired Realpower, a generator maintenance specialist based in County Westmeath, Ireland.
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Battery developers are split over Ofgem’s plan to make projects put more money behind grid connection offers.

Offgrid Energy Labs and Keele University plan to test a unique zinc-bromine battery produced in the UK.

A five-year agreement will initially bring around 3.5MW of behind-the-meter battery capacity into Enel X’s virtual power plant.

Invinity is reconsidering its UK investment plans after only one of the projects using its technology entered Ofgem’s provisional Window 1 portfolio.
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The Government is backing electrochemical and hydrogen storage technologies designed to supply energy over periods of at least 100 hours.

A proposed BESS moratorium outside AI Growth Zones risks treating grid-scale storage as an adjunct to data centres, not critical infrastructure.