UK lags behind US

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The UK is several years behind the USA in deploying electrical energy storage technologies, despite British organisations having a technology base at least the equal of their American counterparts.

The widening gap means Britain is missing out on major economic and environmental benefits, according to speakers at a Global Watch seminar on March 14th, entitled ‘Electrical energy storage: a mission to the USA’.

The seminar, hosted by EA Technology in Capenhurst and attended by more than 80 delegates, followed a DTI-sponsored mission to America by UK power specialists in December. It found that the US government and power companies were well ahead of Britain in recognising and exploiting the potential of electrical energy storage systems, including large-scale batteries, flow cells and flywheels.

Reporting on the mission, EA Technology Principal Consultant John Baker said: ‘The consensus among delegates was that the UK should aim to at least double its installed electrical energy storage base to four or five gigawatts by 2020.

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