“Outdated ESO systems favour high carbon assets, costing consumers £150m”

National Grid ESO has been urged to urgently reform the Balancing Mechanism to enhance low carbon flexibility

Barrier to large scale energy storage? Cost

The biggest barrier to large deployment of energy storage is cost. That’s according to Mick Barlow, Application Director at S&C Electric Europe who spoke at an energy storage conference last week. The seminar, run by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), looked at how energy storage is deployed in the UK’s energy system and its […]

Pay people for energy storage

The next development of energy storage is to pay people to build the technology. That’s the view of energy storage expert Anthony Price who said paying for storage is the right thing to do if we want to encourage it. Mr Price, Director at Swanbarton and the Electricity Storage Network was speaking at an energy storage conference run by […]