An entrepreneurial Scottish firm is set to go global with a pioneering gravity-fed energy storage invention that was trialled in the Scottish capital.Edinburgh-based start-up Gravitricity has been testing out its technology – which uses underground shafts and massive weights to store power and can deliver it back to the network at a moment’s notice – at the Prince Albert Dock in Leith. Now, thanks to £194,00 from the UK government, the company is heading to India to demonstrate how the invention can help the heavily coal-dependent and rapidly developing country cut its environmental footprint.India is currently one of the world’s biggest climate-polluters – in third place after the US and China. But plans have been set out to install more than 500GW of renewable power by 2030, a fivefold increase on the 2021 target, and with that will come a massive need for energy…
Sustainable Scotland: Scots firm goes global with ‘weight-drop’ energy storage innovation
