In article , Chris Hogg
writes
On Wed, 24 May 2017 10:24:48 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
wrote:


"Demand response software start-up Limejump has won the contract to
manage the energy storage facility dubbed 'Britain's biggest battery' by
project developer UK Power Networks"

"Located in Leighton Buzzard, the 6 MW Network Storage Facility has been
developed to help support the growing amount of intermittent renewable
power sources on the grid"

http://www.powerengineeringint.com/a...xt-generation-
utility-wins-contract-for-uk-s-biggest-battery.html

or http://tinyurl.com/m45plc6

One can't help wondering how many of these battery banks are needed to
actually make a significant contribution to the grid. 6MW, 10MWh, so
6MW for ~90 minutes supply before it's flat, as they point out.
Assuming an average UK daily consumption of 35GW, i.e 840,000MWh, we'd
need 84,000 of these battery banks to keep us going for a day, if we
were relying entirely on wind and sunshine and TWDB&TSDS etc. I doubt
it's realistic to think that wind and sun would ever be the only
sources of supply, but it does suggest we'd need a helluvalot of
batteries to be really useful.

Until there is a quantum leap forward in battery technology, which may
actually be theoretically impossible, then this is a complete waste of
time. Stop scratching the surface and build nukes before it is too late.
--
bert