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December 08, 2022
Microvast wins 1.2GWh BESS contract, weeks after EV battery maker’s energy division launch
Microvast, a Texas-headquartered company manufacturing battery cells and storage systems, has won 1.2GWh battery storage deal.
December 08, 2022
Wood Mackenzie: Investment pours in for long-duration energy storage, but scale remains challenge
Enough money invested in long-duration energy storage technologies and projects over the past three years to result in 57GW of deployments.
December 08, 2022
DOE funds support Element Energy and NextEra 50MWh second life battery storage project in ERCOT
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has provided US$7.9 million for a 50MWh battery energy storage project using second life EV batteries in the ERCOT, Texas market, by Element Energy and NextEra Energy Resources.
December 08, 2022
Guyana launches 34MWh tender for battery energy storage alongside solar PV
Guyana, a country on South America’s north coast, has issued an invitation for bids for energy storage projects with a combined capacity of 34MWh. 
December 08, 2022
Europe to hit 9.3GWh of residential battery storage by end of 2022
Residential battery storage capacity in Europe is set to reach 9.3GWh by the end of the year, according to SolarPower Europe.
December 08, 2022
EDF Renewables places repeat order with Wärtsilä for 100MWh UK battery storage project
Wärtsilä Energy has signed additional contract with EDF Renewables UK for 50MW/100MWh lithium-ion energy storage facility in England.
December 08, 2022
Australia will hold tenders to prioritise right mix of renewables and storage
Australia will launch a scheme to incentivise investment in the right mix of low-carbon energy sources and energy storage.
December 07, 2022
PG&E launches vehicle-to-everything pilot programmes in California
California utility PG&E has invited residential and commercial customers to enrol onto three vehicle-to-everything (V2X) programmes using EV batteries for a range of use cases.
December 07, 2022
FlexGen puts first BESS into service in 40MW buildout for North Carolina cooperatives
FlexGen has completed the first project in its 40MW buildout for a set of electric cooperative utilities in North Carolina.
December 07, 2022
Nickel-zinc battery storage startup ZincFive raises US$54 million
ZincFive, a US company developing nickel-zinc battery technology for applications including data centre UPS has closed a Series D round.
November 21, 2022
“Push Me, Pull You!” Subsidies, Taxes, and Storage
It is difficult to understand the logic behind Britain’s policy toward renewable energy. To meet its plans for a low-carbon economy it has been estimated that Britain requires £1.4 trillion of investment to fund its transition to net zero by 2050, but in the recent budget, the government has announced plans to tax excess profits at a rate of 45% of some renewable energy companies who have been the recipients of past public support to induce investment to raise generating capacity. According to the statement by Jeremy Hunt justifying the decision: “The structure of our energy markets creates windfall profits for low-carbon electricity generation. “
October 05, 2022
Energy prices are causing chaos in the UK Construction Industry... but we can help
Data supplied by Mazars shows during the last quarter a huge 5,900 construction businesses were added to the "at significant risk of insolvency" category, with East Anglia, the South West, and South East experiencing the largest increases in the number of businesses at risk.
September 27, 2022
Reform wholesale electricity pricing before the next crisis
In this paper we argue that the United Kingdom is evolving from a hierarchical vertical linear electricity system to a decentralised complex system. However, as the electricity system’s structural complexity increased, there has been no attempt to modify a broken regulatory system where the politically sensitive price-capped retail price for energy is based on distorted national wholesale prices which no longer reflect actual local market supply or demand conditions for electricity nor provide the correct market signals necessary to attract investment to meet net-zero targets.
July 04, 2022
Stagflation and Net Zero
It is popular to blame the invasion of Ukraine on rising energy inflation, particularly oil and gas prices, but there are sound structural reasons why the cost of generating electricity from these sources will continue to rise globally in the coming years. Russia’s militarism is a humanitarian disaster and will place inflationary pressures on food prices, but despite these problems, the UK government is hiding behind the short-term consequences and is not honestly communicating the real economic cost of moving to net-zero by 2050 and meeting the planned carbon reductions by 2030. In addition, the policy measures such as raising interest rates that are being promoted by many economists to meet the problem of stagflation (rising prices and falling output) will only exacerbate the pathology, while making the transition to a low-carbon future more painful.
March 15, 2022
The London St Patrick’s Day Parade in 2022!
The EnviroTech team was delighted to be a part of St Patrick’s Day Parade in London and provide power to the BITA band via one of our power packs!
December 08, 2021
Thanking BITA for their continued support
Dinner with Paul Whitnel and Dermot O’Grady
November 20, 2021
A BITA Business ep 23
On November 19th 2021, our CEO Stephen Jones took part in ep. 23 of LíR Media TV's business show titled 'Sustainable Solutions'.
November 08, 2021
EnviroTech’s Energy Station wins award for the most innovative energy project
The EnviroTech team were incredibly honoured to receive The Building Innovation Awards much-coveted 'Most Innovative Energy Project' award for their EnviroTech Energy Station.
July 25, 2021
The Guardian Newspaper reports there is a greater risk of blackouts owing to the closure of coal plants and nuclear reactors.
As the economy resurfaces from the Covid-19 restrictions, old coal plants and nuclear reactors are due to be shut down. As a result, Britain will face its most significant threat of blackouts in six years.
April 19, 2021
Energy Station at Eton College
The installation of an innovative “Energy Station” by Envirotech is helping GRAHAM to reduce its carbon footprint and manage power demands more efficiently at Eton College.
April 01, 2021
Eton College Energy Station
The installation of an innovative renewable "Energy Station" is helping GRAHAM to reduce its carbon footprint and power demands at Eton College.
November 20, 2020
Saving the Planet: How can Behavioural Economics help?
The main theme of Attenborough’s program is the loss of the natural world and the consequential threat of climate change. This is far from a looming danger. It is already happening.
July 14, 2020
Electricity storage will be exempt from planning regime
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has stated it will bring forward secondary legislation to exempt all size storage facilities (except pumped hydro) from the national planning regime in England.
June 30, 2020
Net-Zero Skills Gap needs urgent action
Transforming the British economy to achieve Net Zero by 2050 will need the spending of billions of pounds in new investment on a green infrastructure.
June 26, 2020
CCC warns of rapidly-closing net zero window
The Committee on Climate Change is today steadfast in its appeal that from the pandemic can arise opportunity, and all that’s required is for government to grasp it.
May 28, 2020
Demand for storage surging
The expected rate of return on battery storage facilities is rising sharply as demand is far outpacing supply. In the short-term the imbalances stemming from the fall off in the demand for electricity stemming from the COVID-19 induced downturn in economic activity is pushing up the utilisation of off grid batteries.
May 19, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic
EnviroTech Energy Management has put measures in place to help protect its team, investors, and clients during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Even though our London offices are currently closed, it’s still very much business as usual!
May 04, 2020
Cambridgeshire Council plans 2.7MW solar farm with storage
Cambridgeshire County Council has unveiled plans for a 2.7MW solar farm, and battery storage plant in Stanground near Peterborough according to local news Peterborough matters.
April 30, 2020
Republic of Ireland expands storage investment
The pipeline of energy storage projects in the Republic of Ireland has reached 2.1GW in April 2020 according to the first release of a research report by trade publication Solar Media.
April 29, 2020
Bank of England fails to exclude buying fossil fuel assets
The Bank of England is missing out on a crucial opportunity to nudge the British economy further in a green direction through its asset purchasing scheme for corporate bonds.
April 17, 2020
Exeter Net Zero 2030 Plan requires investment in storage
Civic leaders in Exeter have outlined plans to turn the city carbon neutral by 2030 and have identified the need for investment in reduced energy use, storage capacity, cleaner power, electrifying transport and in infrastructure.
April 02, 2020
Pandemic impact underlines need for more energy storage Investment
The importance of the role which energy storage can play in providing energy security across the power delivery network, has been brought home as households and those business and institutions still operating in Britain are threatened by the risk of power blackouts as a result of the corona virus pandemic.
March 31, 2020
Scottish demand for storage to rise on renewables surge
The growth in renewables with an intermittent generation of electricity supply means that Scotland will require a considerable expansion in grid level storage capacity.
January 30, 2020
The Economics of Electricity Storage
Governments attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in 2015 affirmed that a global shift to sustainable energy is essential to avoid the damage of catastrophic climate change.
December 01, 2019
Biomass advantages, disadvantages and UK incentives
Power can be produced by burning biomass instead of fossil fuels, thus greatly decreasing the amount of C02 released into the atmosphere. This technology is one of the easiest to adopt and while it’s not 100% clean, it’s much less damaging than the traditional energy sources and can be described as carbon neutral when proper safeguards are applied.
December 01, 2019
Hydropower advantages, disadvantages and UK incentives
Capturing the kinetic energy of the water is one of the earliest clean energy generation methods, and it remains just as important today. Hydroelectric power can be very affordable and doesn’t deplete the resource it relies on, but usually requires large and complex projects before the exploitation can begin.
December 01, 2019
Air source heat advantages, disadvantages and UK incentives
Another frequently overlooked energy source, ambient air can be a valuable heating method in many situations. Heat pumps are a great way to produce thermal energy without polluting the atmosphere, which is why they are being adopted on a global scale. This technology is notable for low carbon emissions and low entry investments, so there are very few obstacles preventing its further growth.
December 01, 2019
Geothermal energy advantages, disadvantages and UK incentives
At the present time, ground source heat and other forms of geothermal energy exploitation are an under-appreciated method for clean energy collection. This could change in the near future, as cost-effective technologies are becoming more widely available.
December 01, 2019
Wind Power advantages, disadvantages and UK incentives
Offshore and onshore wind farms are contributing to an increasing percentage of clean energy globally, and this figure can be expected to continue to rise. The advantages of wind power outweigh any complications associated with the construction of wind farms, which is the reason for the proliferation of such structures in many developed countries.
December 01, 2019
Solar Energy advantages, disadvantages and UK incentives
While solar power has a reputation for being available and affordable, the vast range of possibilities is often still poorly communicated to the general public. In addition to standard solar panels, there are also solar thermal technologies, which are increasingly gaining attention as viable alternatives to fossil fuels.
November 28, 2019
Envirotech Energy Solutions at the Solar Power Portal Awards 2018.
We attended the Solar Power Portal Awards 2018 and were proud sponsors of the Best Financial Transaction of the Year Award which was awarded to Lightsource BP.
November 28, 2019
Envirotech Energy Solutions visit Sungrow Samsung, China.
The co-founders of Envirotech Mr. Christopher Hill and Mr. Steve Wheeler met with the Vice President of Sungrow Samsung James Wu for a consultation on using Sungrow Samsung batteries.
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