Winners include gravity storage company Gravitricity. Image: Gravitricity.
The UK government has unveiled nearly £7 million in funding to help “turbocharge” long duration storage.
It forms part of a £68 million competitive funding opportunity launched by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in June 2021 through the national Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP).
Announced this morning — as BEIS innovation programme manager Georgina Morris prepares to join speakers at the Energy Storage Summit 2022 in London today and tomorrow, hosted by our publisher, Solar Media — a total of 24 projects have now received £6.7 million funding through the Longer Duration Energy Storage Demonstration Programme.
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