Question follow-through · 9894
Batteries: Storage
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of developing large-scale battery storage within the Port of Southampton area.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 17 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of developing large-scale battery storage within the Port of Southampton area.
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2024
Answer published
This Government recognises that batteries have a key role to play in decarbonising the power sector by 2030 by balancing the electricity system and facilitating the integration of renewable power. The Government does not intend to commission an assessment...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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