The storage pipeline is rapidly developing, reaching over 42 GW in October 2022, as developers secure connection agreements for increasingly large batteries. However, constraints on the transmission network are leading to connection dates as far out as 2038 and grid capacity is now a significant barrier to a net zero power system. This session looked at the connection reforms now underway and whether they can go further and faster. The session considered how transmission and distribution networks can work more closely together, how modelling assumptions for storage can be reformed and opportunities for storage connection problems to be addressed by using markets mechanisms.
25 янв 2023
