Drax has submitted an application for planning consent to expand its pumped hydro Cruachan Power Station in Scotland to 1GW, but stressed the need for proper frameworks to support long duration energy storage in the UK.
SSE has renewed its call for policy support for long-duration electricity storage (LDES), following the government’s British Energy Security Strategy.
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.
A call for evidence on how to enable long-duration energy storage is the final document in a deluge of policy papers released by the government yesterday (20 July).
