No storage and no strategy: why our grid is letting renewables down

The UK’s energy transition is in a precarious position and investors know it.

Seagreen, Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm, was recently revealed to have been paid to switch off more than 70% of the time. In the last financial year, £2.7 billion in constraint payments were made by the national grid, money paid to generators not to generate. Why? Because we lack the infrastructure to move and store clean energy.