Until battery storage came along, the issue of balancing the grid and coping with ever more intermittent renewable energy on the system was particularly challenging. However, battery storage allows for ’time shifting’ whereby power generated at times of low demand can be stored and then discharged into the grid when demand is higher. This is helpful to both consumers and those developing renewable energy assets.

Battery storage assets can be stand alone, but the example used in the latest paper is a local authority solar farm that adds battery storage to make the asset more flexible and also to improve the business case.

The webinar will look at battery storage and how it can be developed and better used in local government.

Speakers: Steve Gummer, Steve Cirell, Radhika Devesher, Ben Wallace and Ashleigh Boyce