Last week's poll: energy storage in the UK

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In last week’s poll we asked about your preferred energy storage technologies, a question predicated on a growing renewables landscape that will need storage to cope with intermittency.

In the UK alone, the need for storage is becoming more acute, given that the cost of renewables is falling and large offshore wind farms and solar facilities are under construction.

The eventual solution is likely to involve a mixture of technologies, but some will form a major part of the storage infrastructure while others will be less important, which is why we asked you to pick the one you think will take the lead.

 

Of the 515 respondents, 39 per cent opted for pumped hydroelectric, which is also the subject of The Engineer’s latest cover feature.

This was followed by just under a quarter of respondents (23 per cent) who opted for hydrogen (using excess electricity to decompose water, storing hydrogen gas), and 19 per cent who chose electrochemical (defined as batteries of all types, from lithium-ion and other solid-state technologies to flow batteries).

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