Grid connections – is a revolution or evolution on the horizon for electricity storage?
Electricity Storage Network Conference 2023
Our Specialist Connections Engineer Pete Aston joined the panel at the Electricity Storage Network (ESN) Annual Conference run by Regen.
The storage pipeline is rapidly developing, reaching over 42 GW in October 2022, as developers secure connection agreements for increasingly large batteries. However, constraints on the transmission network are leading to connection dates as far out as 2038 and grid capacity is now a significant barrier to a net zero power system.
Pete and the panel looked at the connection reforms underway and whether they can go further and faster. They also considered how transmission and distribution networks can work more closely together, how modelling assumptions for storage can be reformed and opportunities for storage connection problems to be addressed by using markets mechanisms.
Pete was joined on the panel by Olly Frankland of the Electricity Storage Network (Chair), Steph Palmer of Aura Power, Dr Irene do Martino of Amp X and Andrew Wainwright of National Grid ESO.
Watch the discussion here >>
With thanks to Regen and the Electricity Storage Network for allowing us to share this film.
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