UK Urged to Set Up Strategic Energy Reserve for Power Network
- House of Lords report calls for urgent action on storage
- Commercial facilities may not be available in a crisis
Wind turbines at New Albion wind farm near Rushton, UK.
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The UK must act quickly to build a strategic long-duration energy reserve so that the power network has ample supply during extreme events and periods of low-renewable generation, an influential committee has warned.
Commercially available storage is dependent on energy trading, meaning there’s no guarantee it would be available during a crisis, the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee said in a report published Wednesday.