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Ofgem proposes fee to filter speculative battery storage grid connections
Ofgem has opened a consultation on an Oversubscribed Technologies Commitment Fee of £3,000 to £25,000 per megawatt for battery storage projects seeking grid connection. The regulator says the connections queue holds three times more battery capacity than the system will need by 2035.
Our readThe fee shifts the cost of speculative queue-holding onto developers themselves, the same logic Ofgem applied to data centre connections in July.
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