‘Denser than water’ mini pumped storage solution successfully crowd-funds test rig

RheEnergise bags Low Carbon equity investment

RheEnergise has secured a £335,000 equity investment from the Low Carbon Innovation Fund (LCIF2).

12th February 2024

Ten energy storage technologies that want to change the world

As COP28 calls for a tripling of renewable energy, storage technologies beyond the lithium-ion battery will play key roles. Recharge rounds up 10 of the most innovative recently in the headlines

30th November 2023

RheEnergise and Colbún sign MoU for long duration energy storage projects in Chile

Colbún, Chile's third-largest power generation company and a prominent hydropower operator, has entered into a partnership with RheEnergise, a UK-based clean technology firm, to investigate the viability of deploying RheEnergise's innovative long-duration hydro-energy storage solution, High-Density Hydro® (HD Hydro), in Chile. The agreement marks RheEnergise’s first entry into South America’s energy market.

14th November 2023

RheEnergise enters Chilean storage market

Developer of High-Density Hydro (HD Hydro) technology will work with Colbún to scope out 10MW project

14th November 2023

RheEnergise signs turbine manufacturing contract with Hydropower Engineering in Turkey

UK clean technology company RheEnergise, currently developing a new and advanced form of pumped hydro-energy storage called HD Hydro, has placed its first turbine order with the Turkish engineering company, Hydropower Engineering (HPE).

4th October 2023

Long duration energy storage: Mercia Power Response and RheEnergise eye 100MW in UK

Companies team up explore options for deploying RheEnergise's pumped hydro energy storage technology at Mercia Power Response's grid connections across the UK

18th August 2023

UK players form 100MW hydro, storage partnership

UK-based Mercia Power Response has signed an agreement with RheEnergise to explore the potential deployment of long-duration hydro-energy storage, known as High-Density Hydro (HD Hydro).

16th August 2023

Mercia Power Response & RheEnergise working together to build LONG DURATION ENERGY STORAGE PROJECTS IN THE UK

Mercia PR and RheEnergise aiming for 100MW of long duration storage capacity by 2030...

15th August 2023

Les promesses du stockage d’énergie par pompage

Les mégawatts d’électricité éolienne et solaire se multiplient comme des petits pains. Mais que faire quand le soleil ou le vent sont si forts que la production surpasse la consommation ? Aux quatre coins du monde, des projets de stockage d’énergie par pompage voient le jour. Le Canada est en retard, paradoxalement en raison de sa richesse hydroélectrique.

23rd June 2023

RheEnergise uses heavy liquids to re-launch Pumped Hydro Storage

Pumped hydro storage was the first long term electricity storage system, having been introduced in the 1890’s in Italy and Switzerland. The total capacity of such systems is still more than from any other technique world-wide.

15th June 2023

Startup Showcase: RheEnergise – Revolutionizing Energy Storage with High-Density Hydro®

RheEnergise is a UK-based startup that is changing the game in grid-scale energy storage. With its innovative High-Density Hydro® technology, RheEnergise is revolutionizing the energy storage industry, offering ultra-low-cost energy storage solutions that can facilitate massive growth in clean, renewable energy.

17th April 2023

World needs ‘collaborative competition to capture US$4 trillion long-duration opportunity’

Long Duration Energy Storage was firmly on the agenda and one of the main talking points among attendees at last week's Energy Storage Summit EU in London. As the global transition to renewables-based energy systems picks up speed, so too does the need for energy storage. Balancing the grid at less than 20% penetration of variable sources like solar PV and wind is not considered challenging, but once that threshold is exceeded, it becomes more complicated.

1st March 2023

Diversifying a US$200 billion market: The alternatives to Li-ion batteries for grid-scale energy storage

The global need for grid-scale energy storage will rise rapidly in the coming years as the transition away from fossil fuels accelerates. Energy storage can help meet the need for reliability and resilience on the grid, but lithium-ion is not the only option, writes Oliver Warren of climate and ESG-focused investment bank and advisory group DAI Magister.

21st Feb 2023

In partnership with the University of Greenwich and the University of Exeter, UK-based RheEnergise has secured a grant of £1 million ($1.2 million), funded through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP) as part of the UK Government’s Energy Entrepreneurs Fund (EEF).

RheEnergise, UK universities win grant for High-Density Hydro energy storage system work

9th Feb 2023

INDUSTRY REPORT

Ten energy storage companies to watch in 2023

13th January 2023

PODCAST

RheEnergise - High-Density Hydro

Energy systems need to decarbonise to prevent climate change. There are many solutions to generate energy without using fossil-fuels, but renewable sources of energy are intermittent, depending on how long the sun shines, number of windy days per week – leading to a mismatch between supply and consumer demand...

29th Nov 2022

High-density pumped hydro company to build first demonstrator in Devon

The developer of a new long duration hydro energy storage system will build its first demonstrator in Devon after receiving an £8.25m government contract.

29th Nov 2022

Long Duration Energy Storage Council Adds New Members in Q3

RheEnergise awarded £8.25m UK Government contract to build its first advanced long duration hydro energy storage system

First-of-kind demonstrator of its High-Density Hydro® storage system to be built in Devon. RheEnergise, the UK company that is developing a new and advanced form of long-duration hydro-energy storage system, has been awarded a UK£8.25m small business research initiative (SBRI) contract from the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP) to deploy a first-of-a-kind demonstrator of its High-Density Hydro® storage system...

28th Nov 2022

ARTICLE

UK’s growth stage sector urges government to ‘go for green growth’ amid tax and Brexit indifference

Britain’s fastest growing companies want Rishi Sunak’s new Conservative administration to focus on growth that does not damage the environment, and aren’t interested in the benefits brought about by cutting EU red tape, according to the results of a new poll gauging the political and economic priorities of start-up and growth-stage business founders...

11th Nov 2022

ARTICLE

New energy storage technology could convert hills to renewable energy ‘batteries’

A new energy storage technology has been launched that could transform hills across the UK into ‘batteries’ by adapting one of the oldest forms of energy generation (hydropower) to store and release electricity from slopes rather than via steep dam walls and mountains...

9th Nov 2022

ARTICLE

Renewable revolution : With help from Concordia researchers and alumni, the future looks decarbonized

When world leaders convene in Egypt for the COP27 United Nations Climate Conference in November, the focus will again be on ensuring that targets to reduce the planet’s temperatures can be met. Those efforts will include ambitious strategies to decarbonize the world’s energy....

24th Oct 2022

ARTICLE

BRUSSELS – The Long Duration Energy Storage Council (“The Council”), a global executive-led organization focused on replacing the use of fossil fuels to meet energy demand with zero-carbon long duration energy storage, is welcoming eight new members. The Council was launched in November 2021 and has rapidly grown, adding 37 members to date in 2022. The organization now has a total of 61 diverse companies in regions across the world representing the full energy value chain – including technology innovators, equipment providers, renewable energy companies, utilities, investors, and end-users....

21st Sept 2022

ARTICLE

How renewable energy can power the UK when the wind isn’t blowing

There’s long been a problem with wind and solar power — they serve our needs only when the conditions are right. It can be solved with new ways to store electricity for longer...

15th Oct 2022

PODCAST

The Megawatt Hour – Episode 3: Storing energy for longer, from hydro to hydrogen

The Megawatt Hour is the latest podcast boxset brought to you by Energy Voice Out Loud in paid partnership with BDO. This monthly series examines how energy storage technologies are reshaping, reinforcing and recharging energy markets in the UK and around the globe...

2nd Sept 2022

ARTICLE

La solution montréalaise

Depuis un an, des ingénieurs testent le pompage d’un fluide 2,5 fois plus dense que l’eau, dans un laboratoire sur le bord du canal de Lachine. Le fluide utilisé est appelé R-19 et a été mis au point par l’entreprise. Sa recette est secrète mais il s’agit d’un solide en poudre peu coûteux en suspension dans l’eau. RheEnergise, fondée à Londres, testera cet été sa solution de stockage d’énergie par pompage sur le mont Montcalm, près de Rawdon....

3rd July 2022

PRESS RELEASE

RheEnergise Selected To Receive UK Government Funding To Develop Innovative Energy Storage Solution.

RheEnergise, London, will receive £149,537 to develop High-Density Hydro®, a cost optimised energy storage solution to create stable, dispatchable power grids from ultra-low-cost renewable energy...

23rd February 2022

ARTICLE

High-density pumped hydro ‘could be installed on thousands of small hills’

Thousands of hillsides around the UK could host a new type of pumped-hydro energy storage system, its developers have claimed.

Unlike conventional hydro power, the system from RheEnergise uses dense liquid instead of water. The fluid is two-and-a-half-times denser than water, and could therefore potentially provide two-and-a-half-times the power of equivalent conventional systems....

8th February 2021

ARTICLE

SiliconRepublic : 10 start-ups powering the future of energy

UK start-up RheEnergise already has a roadmap for the coming years, with plans to have its first commercial hydropower energy storage system operational by 2024 and more than 100 systems following that in the next decade...

18th February 2021

ARTICLE

‘Denser than water’ mini pumped storage solution successfully crowd-funds test rig

RheEnergise has raised enough investment via Crowdcube – £320k – to finance building a 500kW test rig for its ‘High-Density Hydro’ energy storage solution. The R&D work to date has been part-funded by Innovate UK, an arm of the UK Government (eight grants totalling £550,000 to December 2020 and a further on-going grant of £135,000)..

8th February 2021

ARTICLE

Fast Company :This startup turns hills into giant batteries You don’t need a lot of lithium when you have gravity.

RheEnergise has raised enough investment via Crowdcube – £320k – to finance building a 500kW test rig for its ‘High-Density Hydro’ energy storage solution. The R&D work to date has been part-funded by Innovate UK, an arm of the UK Government (eight grants totalling £550,000 to December 2020 and a further on-going grant of £135,000)..

2nd November 2021

ARTICLE

UK firm promises high density pumped hydro revolution

A UK-led innovation in energy storage could make it easier and cheaper to roll out grid - balancing pumped hydro schemes writes David Fowler

A new system based on pumped hydro generation promises to vastly increase capacity to store and release energy generated from renewables, providing a more environmentally-friendly alternative to batteries.

The breakthrough in the system being developed by start-up RheEnergise is a bespoke fluid with a density 2.5 times that of water. The company says this opens up a huge number of potentially suitable sites.

4th May 2021

ARTICLE

Reino Unido convertirá sus montañas en “baterías” de energía hidroeléctrica

Con este proyecto, Reino Unido podría convertirse en pionero de la generación de energía hidroeléctrica, de la forma más innovadora.

¿Cuál es la manera más sostenible de producir energía eléctrica? Reino Unido ha encontrado una vía que, parece ser, podría cambiar el futuro de la generación de energía renovable, específicamente de la energía hidroeléctrica.

22nd February 2021

ARTICLE

Ecco come colline potranno diventare batterie a gravità

Centinaia di colline in Gran Bretagna potrebbero diventare delle batterie a gravità, rilasciando energia elettrica su richiesta quando necessario...

9th May 2021

RHEENERGISE S IGNS MOU WITH LEADING CHILEAN UTILITY COLBUN TO DEVELOP LONG DURATION ENERGY STORAGE PROJECTS IN CHILE

RheEnergise’s first entry into South America’s energy market

14th November 2023

RHEENERGISE SIGNS TURBINE MANUFACTURING CONTRACT WITH HYDROPOWER ENGINEERING IN TURKEY

First-of-a-kind 500kW HD TurbineTM to be installed at RheEnergise’s long duration energy storage demonstrator in the UK

4th October 2023

M ercia Power Response and RheEnergise target 100MW of high-density hydro energy storage

Two new partners will explore installation of high-density hydro energy storage with 100MW capacity by 2030.

16th August 2023

NEWS

Professor Richard Cochrane

It is with great sadness that we share the news of Richard Cochrane's, passing. Richard was one of the four founders of RheEnergise, acting as Chief innovation Officer, and a huge part of our progress in the early years.

20th June 2023

PODCAST

Cultivating Conversations : Ep 9 - Energy Storage Re-imagined

Clare Nasir talks with RheEnergise's co-founder and CEO, Stephen Crosher. They've created a smart, simple solution to energy storage using a high density hydro-solution.

12th April 2023

High tech fluid makes pumped hydro more affordable

A company is deploying a first-of-its-kind demonstrator of an advanced long-duration, hydroelectricity storage system

24th Feb 2023

BEIS-funded research project to identify and test minerals and discarded wastes for use in RheEnergise’s grid scale hydro energy storage system

£1 million grant to test materials for new energy storage system

9th Feb 2023

In partnership with the University of Greenwich and the University of Exeter, UK firm RheEnergise has secured a grant of £1 million from the UK government to help identify and test waste materials that could be used as part of a new form of pumped hydro-energy storage

£1 million grant to test materials for new energy storage system

9th Feb 2023

The Department for Energy Security & Net Zero funded research project will identify and test minerals and discarded wastes for use in RheEnergise’s grid scale hydro energy storage system

UK RheEnergise and University Partners Secure £1M Grant from UK Government

8th Feb 2023

O ver £32 million government funding has been awarded to UK projects developing cutting-edge innovative energy storage technologies that can help increase the resilience of the UK’s electricity grid while also maximising value for money.

UK Government supports energy storage with over £32 million funding

29th Nov 2022

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has provided over £32 million to five energy storage projects across the nation to support the development of new technologies such as thermal batteries and liquid flow batteries.

BEIS allocates £32.9 million to long duration energy storage projects

29th Nov 2022

ARTICLE

Pumped storage project set to benefit from a share of UK government funding

A pumped storage project is one of five energy storage projects across the UK that is set to benefit from a share of over £32 million government funding in the second phase of the Longer Duration Energy Storage (LODES) competition.

29th Nov 2022

Batteries are going to need some help

Energy storage backed with over £32 million government funding

Five energy storage projects across the UK will benefit from a share of over £32 million government funding.

28th Nov 2022

RADIO

Farmers call on supermarkets to pay more for food, Growing biomass for energy, Gravitational battery

A major fruit farmer tells us he fears supermarkets will turn to cheaper imports because British costs of production are just too high. We ask the retailers' representative how supermarkets can keep backing British without increasing shoppers' bills...

10th Nov 2022

ARTICLE

Call for growth which does not damage environment

Britain’s fastest growing companies want Rishi Sunak’s Conservative administration to focus on growth that does not damage the environment, and aren’t interested in the benefits brought about by cutting EU red tape, according to the results of a new poll gauging the political and economic priorities of start-up and growth-stage business founders...

9th Nov 2022

PRESS RELEASE

RheEnergise Appoints Commercial Director

RheEnergise, the UK company that is developing a new and advanced form of long-duration hydro-energy storage for worldwide application, has appointed Sophie Orme as Commercial Director...

13th Oct 2022

ARTICLE

This article follows on from a previous post that explains how we store electricity on the grid today. That article focused on pumped hydro and lithium-ion batteries (along with a brief nod to fossil gas). Pumped hydro and lithium-ion batteries are well suited for storing energy for short periods, up to 8 hours. But neither of them is likely to reach the scale that we’ll need in a power system that is 100% renewable and where energy must be stored for days or even weeks at a time...

20th Sept 2022

ARTICLE

With a pretty serious helping hand from the gas grid

As I discussed in a previous article, energy storage is critical to ensure that we have electricity available when we need it. Today in the UK, storage is primarily provided by fossil gas (and we have storage capacity of 16,500 GWh, according to National Grid)...

7th Sept 2022

ARTICLE

London’s 42 Fastest Growing Natural Resources Startups

At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting...

7th Sept 2022

PRESS RELEASE

RheEnergise is very proud to share that we’ve secured a three-year collaboration with Queen's University, supported by a Canadian NSERC Alliance grant of $200,000.

The project, titled “Experimental investigation of the flow of dense solid-liquid suspensions using echo-PIV and echo-LPT” will seek to answer some of the most complex, fundamental questions about the fluid mechanics behaviour of our High-Density Fluid...

7th July 2022

PRESS RELEASE

Consortium Plan To Build & Operate Scotland's First Low Carbon, Energy Efficient, Soil-Free Vertical Farms In The Central Belt

A consortium of four British companies have earmarked a series of sites between Dumbarton and Dundee for the locations of Scotland’s next generation of hectare+ scale vertical farms, powered by 100% Scottish renewables. These farms would provide locally produced fresh foods (salads and fruits) to over 60% of the Scottish population...

21st April 2022

ARTICLE

The weird and wonderful rivals to batteries

If new pumped hydro does get built, there are only so many places with sufficiently high mountains [...] that are suitable for new schemes.

That is where a fleet of competing new technologies come in [...]. One is a twist on pumping water up a hill, by adding suspended solids to make a fluid more than twice as dense as water. RheEnergise, the start-up developing the technology, thinks it will unlock about 9500 sites in the UK, as it can be used on even small hills, not just mountains...

20th January 2022

ARTICLE

World Economic Forum : British hills could soon be generating electricity. Here’s how:

Engineers have invented a high-density fluid that generates two and half times more power and energy than water when it is released downhill. This means that 200-metre hills – instead of mountains and dams – could be used to generate hydropower. Thousands of hills in the United Kingdom, Africa and Europe are potentially suitable, the company RheEnergise says. The global energy storage market needs to grow 100 times its current size to accommodate increasing demand.

16th February 2021

ARTICLE

Hundreds of UK hills could be used for renewable energy storage

The British company RheEnergise has said it has invented a low-cost, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly system for storing energy by adapting one of the oldest forms of storage, hydropower, to store and release electricity from small hills.

It claims this could allow many more sites to be used for storage projects across the UK as the steep dam walls and mountains required for conventional hydropower systems are not needed.

6th February 2021

ARTICLE

Five sustainable innovatoins to watch in 2021

Thousands of hills across the UK could be used to generate renewable energy through a pioneering underground hydropower system.

British company RheEnergise has adapted traditional hydropower energy storage into a high-density system, which can store and release electricity from slopes less steep that those usually required for hydropower dams to work. It uses a fluid with more than two and a half times the density of water to create the same amount of electricity from gentler slopes.

9th November 2021

ARTICLE

The Hustle : The world is facing a big dam problem

For 100+ years, hydroelectric dams have generated power on demand. But with energy needs rising, we’re running out of places to put them.

Enter RheEnergise, a London-based startup…
… that’s turning hills into batteries

Their “High Density Hydro” systems are similar to typical hydroelectric plants — using surplus power to pump liquid uphill to a holding area, then releasing it to create power when needed — but offer several key advantages:

10th February 2021

ARTICLE

This New Energy Storage System Uses Hills As Enormous Batteries

The new technology will work on the same model as hydropower plants while giving a more convenient solution for the energy sector’s rising demands.

RheEnergise is a U.K based startup that came up with this new technology. The novel method will captivate renewable energy utilizing the gravity of hills.

The new method utilizes the same framework as hydropower plants that pump water up on mountains when energy is available at comparatively low rates and release masses of water when it is needed to generate more power through spinning turbines.

Enter RheEnergise, a London-based startup…

… that’s turning hills into batteries

13th May 2021

Vertical farming consortium secures UK Government funding to advance low-emission food production using energy storage

A consortium of four British companies, comprising UK Urban AgriTech (UKUAT), Intelligent Growth Solutions Ltd, RheEnergise and James Hutton Institute has received a grant from the UK Government to advance the development of low-carbon and low-cost food production by co-locating renewable energy with vertical farms.

6th December 2023

RheEnergise signs MOU with leading Chilean utility to develop long duration energy storage projects

Pumped hydro forms the largest percentage of energy storage in the world. Traditionally needing large elevations and huge reservoirs - finding locations suitable for pumped hydro projects is often limited. High-Density Hydro is taking the premise of pumped hydro, removing those barriers and doubling the output.

14th November 2023

PODCAST

Modo Energy: The Podcast - High-Density Hydro with Lizzi Gold

Pumped hydro forms the largest percentage of energy storage in the world. Traditionally needing large elevations and huge reservoirs - finding locations suitable for pumped hydro projects is often limited. High-Density Hydro is taking the premise of pumped hydro, removing those barriers and doubling the output.

17th August 2023

LDES: ‘Future of Energy’ in The Times

Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) remains one of the best-kept secrets of net zero, but this game-changer is about to emerge from the shadows of its cleantech celebrity co-stars, wind and solar.

14th June 2023

Energy Update: Is this the future of Scottish agriculture?

farms powered by renewable energy are the future for quality, low-cost food and a better environment, say the firms behind a major Scottish initiative. Philippa Orr reports.

4th May 2023

Hydro Reinvented. Why Size Matters

The novel Energy Storage Solution that‘s winning the hearts of investors.

12th April 2023

Weekend Read: Light weight

When it comes to gravity batteries, pumped-hydro storage is the gold standard, but its cost and topography-specific limitations are driving innovations ranging from freight-train braking to super-dense liquids. We consider whether any of the new technologies can punch above their weight.

4th March 2023

£19 million government funding awarded to support development of green technologies

The UK Government has awarded £19 million to 37 British entrepreneurs developing new green technologies during the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund (EEF) Phase Nine Funding Round.

13th Feb 2023

Testing quarry tailings for use as hydro-energy fluid

RheEnergise and partners secure £1 million grant to examine use of tailings in hydro-energy storage system.

9th Feb 2023

PRESS RELEASE

Next generation innovators powering UK towards net zero to get £24 million cash boost

Energy entrepreneurs to get the chance to turn their green technology ideas into reality thanks to government funding.

8th Feb 2023

British long-duration energy storage innovations get £32.9m funding boost from BEIS

The UK Government has announced five innovative long-duration energy storage projects to receive a share of a funding pot of almost £33m, including pumped hydro and thermal storage solutions.

29th Nov 2022

Five UK-based long-duration energy storage projects to receive over £32 million in BEIS funding

In a bid to boost the long-duration energy storage market in the UK, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has provided over £32 million to five winners of the Longer Duration Energy Storage (LODES) competition.

29th Nov 2022

Plan for £8.25m Plymouth energy plant to generate power from cream-like fluid

Renewable energy firm RheEnergise gets government contract for prototype hydro energy scheme

28th Nov 2022