THE UK Government has awarded more than £32m (US$38.9) in funding to five projects across the country developing energy storage technologies that could help to increase resilience of the electricity grid.
The Government says that energy storage will be crucial as the UK scales up clean energy. It will allow the nation to strengthen energy security by enabling further reliance on domestic renewable energy, in place of fossil fuels.
The recently-announced £32.9m funding follows the first phase of the £68m Longer Duration Energy Storage (LODES) competition, which saw 19 projects awarded a share of £2.7m. This second phase of funding will allow the five “most promising” projects to advance by building prototypes and demonstrators of technologies that store energy as heat, electricity, or as a low-carbon energy carrier such as hydrogen.
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UK awards £32m to advance energy storage technologies – News
