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Renewables
5th December 2016
Leading the way to a low-carbon future
Playing a major role in the transition towards a low-carbon economy, a trial of the largest grid-scale battery in Britain has proven it can potentially transform the energy grid. The ‘big battery’, designed and run by UK Power Networks and based in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, stores energy when demand is low and releases it at peak times.
Analysis
17th December 2014
UK's Smarter Network Storage facility to be trialled
Amber Rudd MP, Department of Energy and Climate Change, has welcomed the start of trials at the largest electricity storage facility of its type in Europe. After extensive testing of the giant battery, known as the Smarter Network Storage facility in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, it will now be trialled for two years by UK Power Networks, which distributes electricity in South East England.