UK energy storage research gets £5m boost

Will Nichols
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DECC competition winners named, but industry warns deployment will remain slow and costly unless government commits to 2GW target by 2020

Two innovative energy storage projects are to share more than £5m in government funding, designed to help accelerate the development of the technology. But the industry has today reiterated calls for an...

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