or gravity; some are electro-chemical for example batteries and thermal energy can also be stored e.g. in heat stores. Electricity can also be stored in the form of gas; “wrong time” electricity can be electrolysed to produce hydrogen which could be stored or converted into synthetic natural gas and then stored.
Whilst energy storage it is universally agreed to be a good idea, not a great deal is happening in the UK. There is no incentive to increase deployment, the Capacity Mechanism does little to help and there is nothing else in the Electricity Market Reform (EMR) package to assist.
The Electricity Storage Network proposes that the UK power system should have a minimum of 2,000 MW of new network- connected electricity storage by the year 2020. This represents just less than 10% of the predicted increase in renewable generation capacity over the same time period. The REA supports this proposal and will jointly work with Government, investors and developers to enable its important deployment.
Grid network
Any electricity generated must be transported to where it is used, and distributed renewable projects reduce the losses associated with this by generating it where it is used. However, most renewables projects must connect to the grid network in order to export their power and the cost of such connections is now the major barrier to many projects, which will worsen without action. The cost and time taken to connect projects varies significantly between locations (sometimes by seven figure sums and months- worth of time) and create uncertainty.
MANIFESTO ASKS
• Government vision - Develop a national strategy for energy storage that sets a target for 2000 MW of new electrical storage by 2020
• Develop EMR offer - Ensure market reform supports the deployment of electricity storage
• Government partnerships - Continue support for UK demonstration and innovation projects
• Strategic thinking on Grid - Ensure that there is strategic reinforcement of the UK grid network on a coherent basis based on future need, to avoid the current costly piecemeal reinforcements
• Fairer funding - Ensure that necessary upgrades to the UK grid network are funded in an equitable and transparent manner by both the owners of the UK grid network (the ‘DNOs’) and renewable generators, to ensure the renewables projects we need to meet our targets can be built and connected
• Grid competition - Take action to increase competition for connecting projects to the grid and use of the network
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