Shell starts trading power from Europe's 'largest' battery

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Energy storage system installed in village of Minety will help balance UK's increasingly renewables-reliant electricity grid

Shell announced yesterday that it has switched on a 100MW battery system in a village in Wiltshire that it claims is the largest in Europe. The oil and gas major said the grid-connected storage system...

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