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Dr Alan Whitehead MP

15 September 2016 • 4 min read

The National Grid battery tender in August heralds a new era of energy storage, argues Labour's Alan Whitehead

Blink and you might have missed it (although BusinessGreen didn't). I hope the new ministers in Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) weren't blinking when the news came out,...

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