Ground-breaking power test to take place in Wolverhampton
A power station in Willenhall will be part of a ground-breaking experiment designed to test alternative ways of running the electrical grid.
Weston Power Distributions primary substation is to host a demonstration where the UK's first two megawatt lithium titanate battery will be connected to the electrical grid this October in an attempt to test the possibility of using batteries to support the grid.
The project, led by the University of Sheffield, aims to provide a cheap and easily automated way to store excess energy from the grid and respond quickly in times of high demand.
Energy generators have been looking into using large scale batteries for some time but their high capital costs and uncertainties over how they might work commercially has meant uptake of the technology is slow.
