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World's largest battery and car-charging network planned for UK
The world’s largest battery and vehicle-charging network could roll out across British roads through a new £1.6bn scheme due to start in Southampton next year. A brand new energy start-up has won the backing of a UK institutional investor, green energy multi-millionaire and National Grid for fresh plans to dot the UK with grid-scale 50MW batteries and rapid vehicle charging docks across 45 sites. In total Pivot Power’s sites will connect enough new electricity capacity to power 235,000 homes directly to the transmission network over the next 5 years. The major 2GW boost to British power supplies would provide the equivalent of two-thirds of the installed capacity of the Hinkley Point C new nuclear power plant in a quarter of the time and at a fraction of the cost. The market for electric vehicles and batteries is expected to revolutionise the power market in the UK over the coming decades as efforts to phase out combustion engine vehicles gains traction.
