Current± takes a look at two new appointments in the UK’s energy sector, with Laura Sandys joining the Highview Power board, and Guy Newey being announced as the successor to Philip New as the CEO of the Energy Systems Catapult.
A meeting between energy storage representatives and energy minister Greg Hands has this week taken place, with discussions centring on unlocking investment in energy storage technologies.
Deploying large quantities of long duration electricity storage (LDES) could reduce system costs and reliance on gas, but greater policy support is needed to enable this, Aurora Energy Research has found.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced a £10 million grant to help construct the world's largest liquid air battery.
Highview Power and Viridor has taken the UK “a great step forward” after completing what is thought to be the world’s first grid-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) plant at the Pilsworth landfill gas site in Bury, near Manchester.
