National Grid and distribution network operators (DNOs) should give market players “longer-term reliable and robust signals” to encourage the uptake of energy storage technology in the UK, Npower has said. RWE Npower’s strategic business development manager, Cogen & Generation Services’ Graeme Dawson said at a recent event on energy storage that the signals from the system operator are “valuable” to other market players in determining the likely costs of ancillary services in the future.Dawson said that the Transmission System Operator (TSO) National Grid is “still learning” from the last 12 months about the effect of embedded generation on the system and how forecastable it is. But he said the development of energy storage would be boosted by concrete signals from the TSO on the size of the frequency response market in the future.
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