The UK Government department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has opened a consultation on Facilitating the deployment of large-scale and long-duration electricity storage, with a closing date for responses of 28 September 2021.
Large-scale and long-duration electricity storage could provide an important role in decarbonising our energy system, for example by storing renewable power and discharging it over periods of low wind. However there is evidence that it faces market challenges that mean it may struggle to deploy at scale.
This call for evidence seeks information to help BEIS understand in more detail:
- Barriers within the current market
- How these might be addressed
- Risks that may be associated with potential interventions to support the deployment of large-scale and long-duration electricity storage
This call for evidence seeks information to help BEIS understand in more detail the barriers within the current market, how these might be addressed, and to map out risks that may be associated with potential interventions to support LLES storage to deploy.
In this call for evidence, BEIS are considering the need for large-scale and long-duration electricity storage (LLES). Such technologies can help manage variation in renewable generation over longer periods of time. The precise technical parameters of storage that will be required are uncertain, but for the basis of this call for evidence is that LLES projects would need to be able to store and discharge energy for over 4 hours, and up to days, weeks and months, and deliver power of at least 100MW when required.
Check out the full consultation paper here.