Eelpower News

The government should create a new flexibility mechanism to help the grid to deal with rapid fluctuations in demand, a battery owner and operator has said. Mark Simon, chief executive of Eelpower, told Utility Week that a flexibility market is required in...

The growing importance of battery storage to deliver a dispatchable, flexible zero-carbon system was the main theme of Mark Simon’s presentation to Glennmont’s “New Energy Market” seminar held in the House of Commons on December 5th. Mark was amongst of panel of...

Eelpower Ltd, the UK energy storage and services company, has appointed Tom Peacock as Development Director. Tom was formerly Property Director of MRH, the country's leading independent service station owner/operator. He has also held roles at Canfield House, a...

Eelpower Ltd, the UK energy storage and services company, has appointed Magdalena Markiewicz as its Chief Financial Officer.  Magdalena brings a wealth of experience to Eelpower.  To date, she has worked with Rothschild (Global Financial Advisory), with...

Are wind and solar projects just “badly behaved coal plants”? I ask because this perhaps best reflects the argument against the two main renewable energy technologies that critics have put forward in recent years. To read the rest of the article written by Seb Henbest...

Another step in Eelpower's £500m quest for 1GW of Storage by 2022. Eelpower Limited has acquired the 20MW Rock Farm battery storage scheme. Rock Farm won a two year contract in the March Frequency Response Auction. Eelpower is an independent provider of flexible...

The UK battery storage market is in an “entrepreneurial moment” as projects seek out new revenue streams beyond frequency response and embedded benefits, as dicussed by Mark Simon in the following PiE interview:

Eelpower Ltd, the energy storage company, has appointed Steve Gregory as its Chief Financial Officer. Steve’s appointment follows the recent news (April 12th 2018) that Gravis Capital Management had agreed to provide £20m of debt funding to Eelpower to develop the...

UK battery storage developer, Eelpower Limited, has secured an agreement with Gravis Capital Management (“Gravis”) for debt funding which will be used to develop Eelpower’s pipeline of permitted storage sites and enable Eelpower to pursue new storage development...

Barn Energy and Eelpower deploy battery units at Hydro Schemes in Yorkshire with Limejump FFR capabilities powering success Barn Energy, the company that developed and owns three of the largest river hydro projects to be built in the UK in the past 20 years, has...