TY  - GEN
N1  - This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
PB  - The Centre for Low Carbon Futures
A1  - Taylor, Peter
A1  - Bolton, Ronan
A1  - Stone, Dave
A1  - Zhang, Xiao-Ping
A1  - Martin, Chris
A1  - Upham, Paul
A1  - Li, Yongliang
A1  - Porter, Richard
A1  - Pereira Bonvallet, Eduardo
Y1  - 2012/03/27/
CY  - York, UK
TI  - Pathways for Energy Storage in the UK
AV  - public
N2  - The UK has significant technology and policy gaps that need closing if it is to deliver on the legislated 80% carbon reduction by 2050. The lack of suitable planned energy storage capability is at the top of this list. The ability to store energy is a key component to ensure national security of energy supply and allow credible implementation of renewable energy and to use
available sources of heat.
Unlike coal, gas and petroleum, which are available in a physical form, renewable supplies of energy (solar, wind, wave) are ?virtual? and often only available at a specific location and moment in time. Renewable energy forms need to be captured and stored to supply increasingly complex user demands.
This is a core requirement for our national resilience to an
increasing reliance on such variable energy sources. Recently we have become all too familiar with the dire consequences of the gap in our storage capacity ? most notably through the example of wind power suppliers being paid not to generate and supply into the grid even when the wind is active!
Future scenarios indicate that energy storage is essential to reduce the burden on the national grid. The use of electric vehicles and ground source pumps in domestic use will increase demand very substantially and intolerably on our grid. Storage is not an
option but a necessity.
Key challenges for the UK are to:
? understand what types of storage are needed, how much and where it should be deployed in the energy system
? develop a coherent policy approach to energy storage
? stimulate governance and business models to enable
rapid implementation.
EP  - 56
UR  - https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10184079/
ID  - discovery10184079
ER  -