StoTera’s lithium sulfur flow battery, SLIQ 2. Image: StorTera.
The UK has become an undisputed global leader in energy storage deployments, driven on in the past six years by the growing business case for batteries on the grid.
As of the end March 2022, there were a cumulative 1,700MW of battery storage installations in the country and 446MW of that total was installed during the preceding year, according to figures from our colleagues at Solar Media Market Research.
As noted in a recent feature article for our quarterly journal PV Tech Power (Vol.31), batteries play a number of different key roles in helping to balance the network, from frequency response to the Balancing Mechanism and Capacity Market.
However, the applications they perform are largely heavy on power, not energy delivered.
“They are on standby in case something happens – so the actual…