Financial Times: National grid blames old computer systems for sidelining batteries

Written By Battery Storage Coalition

In September 2024, several members of the Coalition wrote an open letter to NESO, highlighting the need to reduce ‘skip rates’. This open letter was covered by The Financial Times.

Our members’ data, and independent analysis by Modo Energy, found that batteries were being skipped up to 90% of the time, even when batteries are the cheapest and fastest solution to meet the needs of the GB grid,

This led to NESO publicly acknowledging the issue of skip rates for the first time. The system operator subsequently published its first skips reduction strategy in December 2024.

Read the full article in the Financial Times.

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