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Wind Power: Storage

Asked by Iqbal MohamedIndependentDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled Answered 3 July 2026UIN 13385

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate he has made of how much curtailed wind energy could have instead been stored in batteries or other forms of energy storage.

Answered by Michael Shanks

The Government has not undertaken an assessment of how much curtailed wind energy could have instead been stored in batteries or other forms of energy storage. The Government has commissioned and published analysis by LCP Delta and Regen on the benefits of Long-Duration Electricity Storage (LDES), including reduced wind curtailment, which has informed policy to encourage storage deployment including the LDES Cap and Floor.

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