Britain’s grid battery storage record is maddening | The UK is great at building renewables but not the batteries needed to use green electricity effectively (www.ft.com)

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[-] egonallanon@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

I mean in the UK that's almost exclusively the form of grid scale energy storage takes, indeed one of the largest generating plants in the UK is a pumped hydro facility.

As to why ti's not deployed more it's matters of location and cost often feature heavily.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

indeed one of the largest generating plants in the UK is a pumped hydro facility.

That's awesome, thanks for letting me know

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