Featured in Keeping your powder dry – 03-2016

Batter up: Storage ready to play hardball

U.K. storage: In the aftermath of drastic subsidy cuts for the U.K.’s renewable energy sector, and what amounted to a specific solar-focused attack, the U.K. PV sector has developed its first set of antibodies in the form of energy storage. pv magazine delves into the British energy policy discourse and maps the first tentative steps of its energy storage journey.

By

Ilias Tsagas

25 Feb 2016

It doesn’t take too much hard work to understand just how much room for maneuver current U.K. policy has left for smart energy solutions: close to none. The U.K.’s Electricity Market Reform (EMR), which the government legislated in 2014, laid bare its vision of a future energy system. Simply put, this amounts to a centralized …

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