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Support needed to boost long-duration storage to 24GW by 2035

The cap and floor mechanism, which is used to finance interconnectors, should be adapted to stimulate an eight-fold increase in long-duration electricity storage capacity that the UK will need by 2035, Aurora Energy Research has urged. In a new study, the consultancy said up to 24GW of long-duration storage, which can store electricity for four hours or more, will required by then to ensure continuity of supply as the electricity system becomes increasingly reliant on intermittent solar and wind power.

3 years ago

DNOs brace for Storm Eunice after Met Office issues red alert

3 years ago

Networks should consider sharing call staff during crises

3 years ago

SSEN and Eon to pilot resilience as a service project

3 years ago

Locational pricing: Will it create a market of winners and losers?

3 years ago

Delivering flexibility in a net zero future

3 years ago

Penrose: Competition can take the politics out of energy

3 years ago

Northern Powergrid issues call for flexibility

3 years ago

The gas industry’s role in levelling up

3 years ago

Renewables get green light to provide synthetic inertia

3 years ago

Weekend press round-up: Minister says price cap is ‘here to stay’

In the latest round-up of the weekend's papers, energy minister Greg Hands says the price cap is "here to stay", water companies are found to be releasing sewage into reivers more than 1,000 times a day, and Northern Powergrid apologises for a trillion-pound storm compensation error.

3 years ago