[Ferro-Alloys.com]The UK authorities stated on April 7 that funding in long-duration energy storage tasks was a part of its future technique for “higher energy independence”.

The British Energy Safety Technique included a £375 million ($488 million) package deal of monetary incentives to help “revolutionary energy applied sciences to energy houses and companies.

Boris Johnson, the prime minister, stated the federal government would “encourage all types of flexibility with ample large-scale, long-duration electrical energy storage to steadiness the general system by growing acceptable coverage to allow funding”.

Johnson stated the UK additionally needed to smarten up the UK’s energy system, “with extra versatile pricing, by way of time-of-use tariffs and battery storage by way of electric automobiles.

“We may also help {solar} that’s co-located with different capabilities — corresponding to agriculture, onshore wind era or storage — to maximise the effectivity of land use.”

The UK’s plans embrace funding to develop new nuclear expertise and analysis into carbon seize.

In July 2021, China’s Envision AESC introduced plans to construct an electrical automobile battery manufacturing plant subsequent to Nissan’s Sunderland auto plant within the UK. Final January, the UK introduced a proposal of presidency funding to help a separate gigafactory by Britishvolt, additionally in north-east England.

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