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Turnbull outlines that the UK has “almost 7GW of shovel-ready pumped storage hydropower projects with over 135GWh storage capacity”. Image: Drax.

May 23, 2021

Changeable British weather could risk grid security argues new report

Increasingly changeable weather in Britain could put net zero and the security of the electricity grid at risk according to a new report.

Cruachan Dam, Scotland, an existing 440MW pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) facility, one of only four in the UK. PHES is the most commercially mature LDES technology, with a duration typically between 4 and 20 hours. Image: Drax Power.

March 25, 2021

Scottish Renewables report warns 'UK will fail to meet' climate change targets without long duration storage

Scottish Renewables has warned that the UK’s climate change targets will not be met without the removal of barriers to long duration storage such as pumped storage hydro.

‘I suspect there will be a similar scheme to triads next year

December 4, 2019

GB needs tenfold increase in energy storage for net zero, research claims

Great Britain will need at least 30GW of energy storage if it hopes to reach net zero by 2050, according to new research.

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