Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential for battery storage technologies to enhance grid stability.

Battery storage technologies play an important role in ensuring grid stability through balancing the power system in real time and have the potential to support grid stability through grid-forming capabilities, depending on the type of technology used and their location on the network. The National Energy System Operator completed a trial of grid-forming batteries on the Stability Pathfinder programme and these technologies can now apply into the Stability Markets to provide these services through a transparent and competitive process.