Long Duration Energy Storage: Is the government guilty of 'anti-battery bias'?

James Murray
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Long Duration Energy Storage: Is the government guilty of 'anti-battery bias'?

Leading developers are warning a proposed new subsidy scheme will create 'arbitrary barriers to entry' for battery energy storage systems, but government insists the plans are 'technology-neutral'

A renewables-dominated grid is great, but what do you do when the wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine? It is a questioned beloved of online renewables critics and climate sceptics everywhere,...

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