Thought Leadership Blog
The Critical Challenges Renewables Pose and The Solutions
Enabling renewables to power grids affordably, reliably and resiliently is necessary. Storelectric has identified a number of critical challenges renewables pose for …
Interconnectors and Imports: Why the UK Risks Energy Insecurity
Interconnectors in Europe The United Kingdom no longer has enough domestically generated electricity for its own peak needs, and relies on imports …
Black Start: Rebooting Net Zero Grids
A Black Start is the process of independently restarting a power station or a section of the grid during a nation wide …
UK Energy Contracts: Why More Longer Durations Are Necessary
Since privatisation, UK energy contracts for major capital investment into infrastructure-scale plant and equipment that was not planned before privatisation have been …
Energy Storage: Vehicle to Grid and Shared Mobility
Vehicle to Grid (V2G) and Shared Mobility are two of the big buzz-phrases people roll out in the transportation sector as magical …
Doing My Bit for the Environment
I was recently asked: do renewable power plants impact the environment? Quite obviously the questioner was seeking to justify pursuing the fossil-fuelled …
CAES Alternatives: Demand Side Response, Batteries, and Others
Alternatives to CAES that provide arbitrage, balancing, ancillary, stability and other services include Demand Side Response (DSR), power stations, pumped hydro-electric stations, …
The Future Role of Hydrogen
The role hydrogen plays will be significant in zero-carbon economies in the future. To achieve all this, electrolysis needs to get much …
CAES Co-Location: Renewable Generation and Interconnectors
Storelectric’s CAES plants are usually designed as stand-alone plants with stand-alone profits based on buying electricity from the grid and selling it …
Adiabatic vs Isothermal CAES
Adiabatic and isothermal CAES are two different processes which sometimes get confused. The way each process treats heat during the compression and …
We Need Baseload Power in Europe Not Just Grid Flexibility
Reports have claimed that baseload power is not necessary in Europe, only grid flexibility. The basis for this thinking is Germany, which …
Renewable Energy Requires Greater Storage Capacity in the UK
The Energy Transition The energy transition to a zero-carbon economy is, quite correctly, seeing widespread roll-out of tens of GW of renewable …