UK's largest battery energy storage array comes online

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AES announces Northern Ireland's 10MW Kilroot energy storage array is now open for business

The vision of using energy storage technologies to maximise output from intermittent renewable energy sources and reduce the cost of decarbonisation took another step towards becoming reality this week,...

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