Energy Storage Wins First Agreements In UK Capacity Market Auctions... And for Battery Storage Too For the first time, battery storage has won agreements as part of the UK’s latest Capacity Market auction, winning over 3.2 gigawatts (GW) of contracts according to provisional auction results. However, the big news out of the provisional auction results was the awarding of over 3.2 GW of energy storage contracts, the first time energy storage has won agreements as part of the market wide auction. Specifically, four battery projects which had previously been successful under the National Grid’s Enhanced Frequency Response (EFR) tender were provided with 15-year contracts as new build generators under the T-4 Capacity Auction. These four projects are the 10 MW Cleator and 40 MW Glassenbury projects being developed by Low Carbon, a 49 MW project being developed in West Burton by EDF Energy Renewables, and the 10 MW Blackburn Meadows project under construction in Sheffield by E.ON UK. See http://ift.tt/2hKmvGk
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