2026 Energy Storage Awards Partners
Align your brand with the industry’s most successful and innovative companies by sponsoring the 2026 Energy Storage Awards.
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As one of the first optimisers of battery storage assets to enter the UK energy market, EDF is a leading Route to Market provider for flexible assets. Our people, market knowledge and experience, combined with algorithmic and AI systems, enable us to innovate and deliver the widest range of strategies for asset owners. This is demonstrated through our ability to generate market-leading revenues and extracting the best value from the asset. EDF provides optimisation services to over 1.3GW of operational assets and has more than 4.4GW of contracted capacity, with asset sizes ranging from single MWs to hundreds of MWs and MWhs. Our portfolio includes both stand-alone and co-located projects, giving us a unique blend of capabilities across the market.
Freeths is a full-service law firm with one of the UK's most established and highly-regarded Clean Energy practices. Our multidisciplinary team consists of 120 lawyers with extensive experience and expertise in the clean energy market, across solar PV, wind, energy storage, bioenergy, EV charging infrastructure, green hydrogen, heat networks, microgrids, and other emerging technologies. Freeths advises throughout the project lifecycle, from early-stage development and financing, through construction, commissioning and operation, to subsequent repowering, refinancing and decommissioning, with particular expertise in buy-side M&A, route-to-market structures, asset optimisation, and industry regulation. Freeths’ clients include developers, investors, funders, asset managers, landowners, utilities and technology providers. Freeths is ranked by Chambers & Partners for Power, Renewables & Alternative Energy, and by The Legal 500 for Energy, Project Finance & PFI and for Renewables. Freeths is proud to be a certified B Corporation. Website: Clean Energy | Freeths
International Power Supply (IPS) is an energy technology company specialising in the research, development, engineering, and manufacturing of advanced microgrid technologies and energy storage solutions. The EXERON platform, forming the backbone of the utility-scale X-BESS, is one of the pioneering solutions for microgrids, enabling renewable energy systems to operate reliably in both off-grid and weak-grid environments. IPS received the Energy Storage Innovation Award at the ees Europe (Intersolar) trade fair in 2014, competing among more than 1,300 participants. Since then, EXERON-based systems have been deployed on all seven continents - from Livingston Island in Antarctica to the deserts of Saudi Arabia, supporting critical infrastructure across key sectors including data centres, energy, oil & gas, telecommunications, and defence. All IPS operations are governed by a robust Integrated Management System, certified to the following international standards:
- ISO 9001:2015 – Quality Management
- ISO 14001:2015 – Environmental Management
- ISO 45001:2018 – Occupational Health and Safety Management
- ISO 27001:2022 – Information Security Management
- AQAP 2110 – Quality and security certification under the Allied Quality Assurance Publications of NATO
SMA Solar Technology is a long‑established technology partner to the UK renewable energy sector, supporting the growth of utility‑scale solar and battery energy storage as the power system becomes increasingly decentralised and dynamic. With a strong focus on large‑scale energy storage, SMA delivers advanced power conversion and grid‑forming solutions that enable battery projects to go beyond energy shifting and actively support grid stability, resilience and security of supply. As the UK accelerates the deployment of storage to balance a renewables‑led power system, these capabilities are becoming central to long‑term asset performance and system value. Through its Large Scale & Project Solutions portfolio, SMA works closely with developers, IPPs, EPCs and technology partners to deliver storage projects that meet today’s grid requirements while remaining future‑ready. Combining global engineering expertise with local market knowledge, SMA supports the UK storage ecosystem in turning technical innovation into reliable, system‑critical infrastructure. Learn more at https://www.sma-uk.com
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