These are good times for battery storage in the UK. Last October, the US International Trade Administration singled out the UK storage market as one to watch, with more than 16GW of capacity in operation, under construction or in the pipeline.
More recently, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has set aside £7 million in funding to help diversify the storage market with more long-duration assets. Investors are eyeing the Balancing Mechanism and Capacity Market alongside traditional short-duration opportunities.
Against this backdrop of rapid growth and diversification, it might appear that optimising batteries to work on the UK grid is a relatively simple matter. But nothing could be further from the truth.
Optimising storage plants within the electricity system remains fraught with challenges—and many of these could get worse as the energy…
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