The proposed project will allow to store and release energy for the entire grid, augmenting resources from wind, solar and hydro, to nuclear and fossil fuels. Contributing to local and national energy targets with additional benefits to include:

• Smoothing out the delivery of variable or intermittent resources such as wind and solar, by storing excess energy when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, and delivering it when the opposite is happening;
• Ensuring reliability and resilience of connection, by providing backup power during disruptions;
• Reducing Environmental Impact via the integration of more solar and wind because it enables electricity from distributed energy sources to be saved for a later, offsetting the need for building new pollution-emitting peak power plants;
• Battery storage is a key enabler of net zero. The electricity system needs to be fully zero carbon to reach our net zero targets, and battery storage is a source of clean, flexible capacity. National Grid has forecast GB needs more than 50GW of battery storage by 2050, up from around 2.4GW today.