by Tim | Oct 20, 2020 | Storelectric News
National Grid’s Winter Outlook Report this year shows a de-rated capacity margin of 4.8GW or 8.3% (p7). This looks healthy, though neighbouring countries’ grids target 10-15% margin. However there are a number of concerns with it: De-rated margin is a...
by Mark Howitt | Jul 2, 2020 | Storelectric News
Following our article a week ago, Mark Howitt from Storelectric pointed out the omission of their very interesting long duration storage technology. Storelectric has developed what they claim is the world’s most cost-effective largescale long-duration electricity...
by Mark Howitt | Jul 2, 2020 | Storelectric News
Many large renewable generation projects and interconnectors are stalled because thegrid to which they would connect is weak and/or saturated, requiring hugely costly grid reinforcement before the renewables can be connected, which makes the project impractical....
by Mark Howitt | May 22, 2020 | Storelectric News
The lockdown is providing a trial run of the “summer minimum” challenges of operating the grid as it will be in the 2030s and 2040s, with renewable generation as a high proportion of demand. Demand was historically low and renewable generation historically...
by Mark Howitt | Oct 9, 2019 | Storelectric News
On the surface, various aspects of the market are giving conflicting signals: batteries have piled into the Frequency Response market, collapsing its price, and are starting to look at STOR (though only longer-duration batteries can bid for it); the Capacity Market...
by Mark Howitt | Apr 17, 2019 | Storelectric News
Given the current postponement of Brexit until (appropriately???) Halloween (31st October), the following is Storelectric’s current understanding of the impacts of Brexit on our PCI projects and a bit more widely. Please note that this is not an assessment of its...
