There should be an ‘all of the above’ approach to energy storage deployment, the panellists said. Image: Invinity Energy Systems via Twitter.
Although different energy storage technologies are often thought of as in competition with each other, it’s a case of all-hands-on-deck if we are to achieve deployment targets.
Speakers on Energy Storage Summit 2022’s ‘Increasing Capacities and Generation’ panel unanimously agreed with that premise, at the event hosted in London this week by our publisher Solar Media.
Katherine Vinnicombe, head of business development at UK grid-scale energy storage developer Eelpower, said: “There is a consensus forming that we need another 40GW of storage by 2035 in the UK which is really significant. That will be divided 50:50 between short-term needs like frequency response etc while the other half is needed to target long-term…