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Energy Transitions Podcast: Bridging the UK's energy supply and demand gap with storage
Energy Transitions Podcast: Bridging the UK's energy supply and demand gap with storage
Pamela Largue
Posted on: 15 June 2022
With the increase in wind and solar generation, guaranteeing adequate system flexibility is vitally important to ensure sufficient capacity to cover demand.
With the increase in wind and solar generation, guaranteeing adequate system flexibility is vitally important to ensure sufficient capacity to cover demand.
Phil Thompson, CEO of Balance Power, unpacks the UK’s recurring misalignment of generation and demand that leaves the nation vulnerable to power shortages and wasted excess generation and looks at how many megawatt hours are needed to resolve the situation.
<strong>"...with storage, it's not being given the limelight it deserves for what it can do, both in terms of providing flexibility services and for providing actual power"</strong>
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