Swanbarton Limited is an engineering and commercial consultancy business which is actively involved in the development and deployment of modern and smart technologies for electricity networks.  Our background is in the development and the applications of electrical energy storage technologies -  some of the building blocks of the modern or smart grid. Our experience covers technical, commercial, marketing and regulatory aspects of energy technologies and their interaction with the power network.

We support clients with the development of their interests in electrical energy storage, integration with the network and the deployment of the smart grid. We have led market surveys for electricity storage and have helped clients to understand, develop and profit from energy storage applications.  If you want to know the value of electricity storage, ask us!

We are specialist consultants in electricity storage and look forward to working with you!

Conference organisers may wish to check dates of conferences listed on our pages to avoid unnecessary clashes.  

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NEWS:

Energy Storage for Electricity Networks,

The conference "Energy Storage for Electricity Networks" jointly organised by the I Mech E and the Electricity Storage Network was held on Wednesday 13 March 2012 and attended by more than 80 delegates. The conference covered the current status of electricity storage developments and applications and discussed the future work in this area.

This was the fourth conference in this successful series, and the next will be held in March 2013,  Mark your diary now.

UK Government consultation on Electricity Market Reform

The Government's White Paper "Planning our electric future" is now available for download.  Go to the DECC website here to download this and the supporting documents.

There is now a further consultation on capacity mechanisms.  This is a key part of the introduction of storage into the GB market.  Details of this further consultation are available here.

As a result of the consultation DECC has now published a technical guidance note on the Capacity Mechanism.  Downloads and details are here

The Electricity Storage Network, an alliance of storage manufacturers and developers, have prepared their response to the consultation on Electricity Market Reform.   For more details about the Electricity Storage Network click here.

National Grid's views on 2020

A revised consultation paper has now been published.  Plenty of interest in this for the storage community:   see http://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/Electricity/Operating+in+2020/ for more details.

The Electricity Storage Network has submitted a consensus view in response to this document.