NIC prioritises UK energy with storage tech to play a vital part

摘要

The new National Infrastructure Commission will be familiar to most readers, but its third priority of "balancing UK electricity supply and demand" may be less well known. Energy storage will be a crucial part of this move to a secure and sustainable energy system. Storage devices range from the huge, such as pumped hydro projects, to the domestic scale, which are generally 2-4 kW batteries roughly the size of a washing machine.