Battery storage secures slice of capacity market action

Michael Holder
clock • 5 min read

Storage secures 3.2GW of capacity market contracts, in latest auction which also extended major subsidies for gas plants

Battery storage facilities have won a place in the UK's arsenal of back-up power supply for the first time, the provisional results of the government's latest capacity market auction show. Storage won...

To continue reading this article...

Join BusinessGreen

In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to:

  • Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news, analysis, and opinion from Europe’s leading source of information on the Green economy and business
  • Receive important and breaking news stories via our daily news alert
  • Our weekly newsletter with the best of the week’s green business news and analysis

Join now

 

Already a BusinessGreen member?

Login

Michael Holder
Author spotlight

Michael Holder

Editor

View profile
More from Michael Holder

How corporates are helping to drive the global clean power boom

Over 600 financial firms now committed to PCAF carbon reporting standard

More on Infrastructure

Government to fast-track delivery of UK's first two new reservoirs in 30 years
Infrastructure

Government to fast-track delivery of UK's first two new reservoirs in 30 years

Proposed new reservoirs in Lincolnshire and East Anglia declared 'Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects', in a move from Defra to try and speed up the planning approval process

Amber Rolt
clock 28 May 2025 • 3 min read
Mine water scheme provides heat to Welsh industrial site
Infrastructure

Mine water scheme provides heat to Welsh industrial site

Untapped heat from Welsh mine water treatment scheme to provide low-carbon heat for neighbouring business

Stuart Stone
Stuart Stone
clock 28 May 2025 • 4 min read
Plans unveiled for £170m building insulation factory in North Wales
Infrastructure

Plans unveiled for £170m building insulation factory in North Wales

Government welcomes plans from Knauf Insulation for factory capable of producing more than 100,000 tonnes of rock mineral wool insulation each year

Michael Holder
Michael Holder
clock 20 May 2025 • 2 min read