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Battery storage secures slice of capacity market action

09 December 2016 • 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...

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