RheEnergise® News Archive
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
UK Government supports energy storage with over £32 million funding
Over £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.
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
Startup Showcase: RheEnergise – Revolutionizing Energy Storage with High-Density Hydro®ï»¿
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
ARTICLE
BEIS allocates £32.9 million to long duration energy storage projects
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.
29th Nov 2022
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
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
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
ARTICLE
Businesses call for green growth amid Sunak administration, research finds
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...
10th Nov 2022
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
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
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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
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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
Long Duration Energy Storage Council Adds New Members in Q3
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
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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
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‘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
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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
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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
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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
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
Batteries are going to need some help
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
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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
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
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
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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
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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.
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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
ARTICLE
UK’s growth stage sector urges government to ‘go for green growth’ amid tax & Brexit indifference
Hills across the UK can be transformed into renewable energy “batteries” using RheEnergise’s underground hydropower system. RheEnergise, a UK clean technology company, wants to partner farmers across the UK to deploy their pioneering hydropower-like energy storage system, alongside their existing or future renewable energy assets, such as wind and solar farms. By doing so, RheEnergise offers farmers greater energy security and a new long-term source of income...
7th Nov 2022
ARTICLE
Current± Asks the Experts: RheEnergise on PHES and long duration energy storage challenges
One company that is spearheading innovation within the pumped hydro space is RheEnergise, which has developed High-Density Fluid R-19, a substance that is 2.5x denser than water. Using this fluid, its PHES systems can operate on low hills rather than just mountains, creating an opportunity an order of magnitude greater than traditional pumped hydro...
9th Nov 2022
PRESS RELEASE
Revolutionary energy technology can offer hillside farmers energy security and a new source of income
Hills across the UK can be transformed into renewable energy “batteries” using RheEnergise’s underground hydropower system. RheEnergise, a UK clean technology company, wants to partner farmers across the UK to deploy their pioneering hydropower-like energy storage system, alongside their existing or future renewable energy assets, such as wind and solar farms. By doing so, RheEnergise offers farmers greater energy security and a new long-term source of income...
7th Nov 2022
ARTICLE
The Times : 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...
25th Oct 2022
PODCAST
Harnessing the Power of the Sun
Energy, it's an essential thing that humans use everyday from powering our cars , making the food we eat and building the structures we live in. However it has a problem, it is currently produced by fossil fuels polluting and destroying our planet. So what's the solution?.
2nd Sept 2022
ARTICLE
Scotland: Strong synergies between vertical farming, renewables and energy storage
Building vertical farms around the Central Belt of Scotland is ideal because there is a lot of available renewable energy, it is close to a large part of the population and has good support from the government...
12th July 2022
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The Times : Rise of vertical firms pitched to feed 60% of Scots
Plans have been revealed for giant vertical farms to provide food to almost two thirds of the Scottish population.
The first of four giant complexes, which would be powered by renewable energy, could open in 2025.
21st April 2022
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The Guardian : Powering up: UK hills could be used as energy 'batteries'
Hundreds of hills across the UK could be transformed into renewable energy “batteries” through a pioneering hydropower system embedded underground.
A team of engineers have developed a system that adapts one of the oldest forms of energy storage, hydropower, to store and release electricity from gentle slopes rather than requiring steep dam walls and mountains....
8th February 2021
ARTICLE
The Guardian : Here's how to solve the energy crisis for the long-term- store more power
A new breed of pumped storage could play an even greater role than the giant hydropower plants of the past. Engineers believe they could unlock hundreds of potential sites across the UK, which would be quicker and cheaper to build than traditional hydropower dams. By using a mineral-rich fluid, which has more than two-and-a-half times the density of water, projects could generate the same amount of electricity from slopes which are less than half as high...
10th January 2022
ARTICLE
RheEnergise aims to have first commercial hydro power storage system in 2024
A new long-life source of underground hydro-powered energy storage has been invented by British company RheEnergise which is now embarking on its first successful crowdfunding project to fund the next phase of the project.Courtesy of RheEnergise.
The low-cost, energy efficient and environmentally-benign energy storage solution High-Density Hydro could mean thousands of hillsides across the UK being used to provide energy to the UK’s energy system....
8th February 2021
ARTICLE
Eminox Collaborates with RheEnergise on Energy Storage Project
Eminox today announced a major new partnership with pumped energy storage innovator RheEnergise. Eminox will use its 42+ years of engineering expertise designing and manufacturing complex emissions reduction systems for a variety of engine applications to create and deliver the overall digital control system for RheEnergise's ground-breaking new energy storage solution.
9th February 2021
ARTICLE
Crowdfunding pours into RheEnergise’s high-density hydro
Eminox today announced a major new partnership with pumped energy storage innovator RheEnergise. Eminox will use its 42+ years of engineering expertise designing and manufacturing complex emissions reduction systems for a variety of engine applications to create and deliver the overall digital control system for RheEnergise's ground-breaking new energy storage solution.
11th February 2021
ARTICLE
Cette start-up a conçu une STEP adaptée aux pays sans reliefs
L’immense majorité des stations de transfert d’énergie par pompage-turbinage (STEP) utilise de l’eau pour stocker l’électricité. Une start-up britannique veut la remplacer par un liquide à haute densité, qui permettrait de décupler la puissance tout en réduisant les contraintes techniques et géographiques.
25th February 2021