UK Battery Industry Market Analysis
UK Battery Industry Market Analysis Driven by the growing demand for electric vehicles, the demand for lithium-ion batteries has been on the rise worldwide and is expected to exceed...
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Since its inception the firm has raised equity primarily for energy, property and early stage businesses that required capital or technical and professional skills focused on infrastructure and clean tech. The arrangement between partners allows Hamilton March to fund projects within short timescales and be flexible in its approach.
UK Battery Industry Market Analysis Driven by the growing demand for electric vehicles, the demand for lithium-ion batteries has been on the rise worldwide and is expected to exceed...
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Hamilton March believes that the energy sector is now maturing into a landscape of secure returns on capital for traditional investors seeking
regular returns.
The demise of the government’s incentive-based investments, means that appropriate technology supported with quality installation in a robust
contract structure provides value to the market and the maturing industry.
Importantly, Hamilton March’s clear understanding of the investment criteria can provide the capability required to optimise the efficiencies of
the asset, this is complimentary to the work carried out by the technical teams in the R&D business.
Battery
Batteries are providing resilience support to National Grid and the district network operators when the grid demand is fluctuating through peaks
and troughs of demand and generation. This is particularly acute during the transition from traditional power function to renewable sources.
Hamilton March have established an aggregated group of smaller battery sites to combine resilience and provide support power to digital and
power driven operations, which have critical supply requirements, such as, mobile telephone, mini data centres and EV chargers.
Gas Peaking
Gas peaking is a key part of National Grid’s strategic infrastructure. Hamilton march invested in the development of a turnkey investment model.
Hamilton March has now established IBG, a strategic JV with Rampart Capital to develop 300MW of gas peaking
The current R&D work will support this work stream to deliver a sustainable and rounded community benefits project, combining power optimisation, food chainbenefits, EV Charfers, and Digital Services.
It is clear that the UK has a great deal of innovative and intelligent engineers and technologists who can develop solutions to assist the evolution of clean tec and renewable energy.
Hamilton March recognised in 2017 that much of transition of this technology and expertise is hindered by bureaucracy and red tape to actually find a commercial enterprise prepared to spend time, let alone, invest capital to incubate and test these products and concepts.
WIND & BATTERY
Power curve efficiency of wind turbines and storage of power in batteries with software to optimise with AI to support grid resilience is valuable
for optimising carbon capture and waste mitigation. The team have commenced work to define this
Future Projects
Conversion of fuel gases to agricultural food stock:
Objective: removal of CO2 re-use of waste for world poverty program.
Modular Hybrid
In 2017 Hamilton March invested in the development of a product to support the frequency response challenges of National Grid in conjunction with Electricity North West Ltd. The product was taken through concept, bench testing and Phase 1 prototype to then be connected and tested in live market.
The Grid Response Module® (“GRM”) was a combination of batteries, a biofuel generator and software to operate into grid to mitigate voltage swing and market connection in under two seconds, but operate for as long as National Grid demand was under supplied or over supplied.
Industrial Scale Lab
In 2018 Hamilton March commenced a JV project to build an industrial scale plant in Derbyshire, England.
It was recognised that the value of the desk top and bench testing in the universities could not be advance significantly to allow the modelling and operational data to be purified.
The bench testing phase completed in 2019 and the plant is now commencing a series of tests in collaboration with two international recognised universities:
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Queen’s University, Belfast
Hamilton March recognise the crisis looming in the residential home sector. The constraints are largely down to two key areas: planning and finance.
The complexity of the planning process and the restraints of local authorities to sanction planning have been cited at UK government level as the two main reasons for the failure to build sufficient residential housing in recent times. Moreover, the lack of mainstream finance to build private and social housing has evidently been a contributory factor.
Whilst private sector supply has been fairly consistent over the last 50 years, population growth and demographic changes have increased the demand for homes.
The UK Government recognises that they will need to boost funding for affordable housing if supply is set to increase, whilst embracing more imaginative solutions around the re-use of buildings and development types. Institutional investors are now deploying to this area with large capital allocation for Public Rental Schemes (PRS).
The skills of Hamilton March’s partners, both in energy and in property, are ideally placed to support the prospect of successful capital deployment into a secure asset class.
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Hamilton March is a private investment firm focused on Infrastructure and Energy investments.
We leverage our formative experience as operators to build and support the platforms underpinning the delivery of next generation technology.
Technology
Research and Development and proven technology to optimize value.
Land Use
Research and Development and proven technology to iptimise value.
Investment Principles
Research and Development and proven technology to iptimise value.