Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to invest in increased energy storage solutions to reduce the cost of turning off wind farms and sourcing alternative energy sources.

The Clean Power Action Plan was launched in December 2024 and sets out a pathway towards deploying more low carbon flexible technologies. The Clean Power Action Plan suggests we could need 4-6GW of Long Duration Electricity Storage (LDES) by 2030, up from 2.8GW today, and also outlines plans for the deployment of grid scale battery storage.

The Government and Ofgem are supporting the development of the next generation of LDES facilities with a cap and floor investment support scheme. We are also streamlining planning processes for storage projects to help reduce system constraint costs across the electricity network.