27/08/2025 - Grid storage: Impacts on balancing costs and carbon emissions

Great Britain’s power system has seen rapidly growing investment in renewable energy and storage over the past decade and now has further ambitious targets linked to the Clean Power 2030 policy.

The talk will present findings from high-fidelity transmission grid and market modelling. The results highlight that storage location has a considerable impact on both balancing costs and carbon emissions.

Motivated by these findings, the talk will propose new operating strategies and market mechanisms which could improve the economic case for grid storage and help align operational incentives with emissions reduction goals.

“Value in Energy Data” is a series of seminars hosted by Digital and Data Consultant, Dr. Stephen Haben, and the Data Systems team at Energy Systems Catapult.