An £800 million deal which will create two further battery energy storage sites in Scotland - each of which are the largest in Europe - has been hailed as "formidable" by First Minister John Swinney.
Energy secretary Ed Miliband told industry at the EnergyUK conference in September that reaching net zero, which the government wants to achieve by 2030, will be a matter of “national security”.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday that the government has secured more than £24 billion of private investment in domestic clean energy projects ahead of next week’s investment summit.
EDF Renewables is set to bring more than 300 MW of battery storage capacity online over the next 12 months across six UK projects currently under construction.
Long-duration energy storage could save the UK power system billions of pounds as the country seeks reliable backup supply amid a push to expand offshore wind, according to consultants LCP Delta.
By TLT legal director Stuart Urquhart and partner Matthew Grimwood
In August 2021, the government published its UK Hydrogen Strategy which mapped out plans to achieve its hydrogen production ambition of 5GW per year by 2030. Less than a year later, it doubled this target to 10GW, with at least half of this from electrolytic hydrogen (green hydrogen).
Having considered many aspects of grid-scale storage, this episode of the Megawatt Hour drills down to the small-scale to focus on where we’re most likely to interact with the technology in our daily lives – in our homes.
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.