Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the UK's ability to harness its renewable energy production through the use of (a) smart thermal storage heaters, (b) batteries, and (c) other existing energy storage technologies.

The Government published analysis which examined future requirements of flexible low carbon technologies including electricity storage and flexible heating alongside the joint BEIS and Ofgem Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan 2021 (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transitioning-to-a-net-zero-energy-system-smart-systems-and-flexibility-plan-2021). Additionally, as part of our response to the Call for Evidence on Large Scale Long Duration Electricity Storage from Aug 2022, the Government published external analysis (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefits-of-long-duration-electricity-storage) the role that long-duration electricity storage could play in the system.