April 2022
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This conference assessed the priorities for further developing the energy storage sector in the UK.
Areas for discussion included:
- market development - access to finance, support for commercialisation, and reducing network and regulatory barriers to entry
- expanding capacity - system flexibility, and the role of small- and large-scale storage
- innovation - battery storage and developing alternative technologies
- decarbonisation - the role of energy storage, including in the transition to low-carbon energy generation
- policy - regulatory and whole-system reform, and priorities going forward
We were pleased to be able to include keynote contributions from: Aurore Mallon, Senior Policy Advisor, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; as well as Nick Winser, Chairman, Energy Systems Catapult; Duncan Botting, Group Chief Executive Officer, Global Smart Transformation; Professor Nigel Brandon, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London; Kate Jones, Innovation Lead, Innovate UK; Kyle Martin, Market Change Delivery Senior Manager, National Grid ESO; Siobahn Meikle, Managing Director, Eaton UK&I; and Professor David Stone, Professor in Electrical Engineering and Member of the Management Board of the Energy Institute URI, University of Sheffield.
The conference was an opportunity for stakeholders to consider the issues alongside key policy officials who attended from BEIS; DfT; HM Treasury; DAERA, NI; Department for Energy, ROI; DIT; DLHUC; the DfE, NI; GLD; HSE; HMRC; NIRO; PINS; UKSA; British Embassy Kyiv; and the Welsh Government - as well as parliamentary pass-holders from the House of Lords.
