Supporting the expansion of renewable energy is the aim of Carbon Trust. Image source: Shutterstock (#134061152)
The new Energy Systems Innovation Platform (ESIP) unites Centrica, DONG Energy, SSE, Scottish Power, Wood Group – Clean Energy and Statoil, six of the UK’s biggest electricity providers, to pave the way for a more effective transition to a low cost and low carbon energy system. Led by the Carbon Trust, the platform will initially focus on developing energy storage, but ultimately wants to achieve much more. One goal is to bring down the cost of electricity.
“The reason this is an energy systems platform, rather than an energy storage platform, is because there is recognition that there may well be other solutions that are equally applicable if not even better than power storage,” he said. “So our future focus will be driven by what we find and what we learn,” Andrew Lever, director of innovation at the Carbon Trust, commented.
Other energy companies are open to joining the platform as partners.
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