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20 October 2022
Title: Battery Storage in Local Authority Renewable Energy Projects
Date: Wednesday 26 October 2022
Time: 10:00 – 11:00am
Speakers: Steve Gummer, Steve Cirell, Radhika Devesher, Ben Wallace and Ashleigh Boyce
Until battery storage came along, the issue of balancing the grid and coping with ever more intermittent renewable energy on the system was particularly challenging. However, battery storage allows for ’time shifting’ whereby power generated at times of low demand can be stored and then discharged into the grid when demand is higher. This is helpful to both consumers and those developing renewable energy assets.
Battery storage assets can be stand alone, but the example used in the latest paper is a local authority solar farm that adds battery storage to make the asset more flexible and also to improve the business case.
The webinar will look at battery storage and how it can be developed and better used in local government.
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Steve GummerSteve G is a Partner at Sharpe Pritchard and has worked on renewable energy projects from carbon credits, emissions trading, renewable generation, electric vehicles and transmission and all of the legal issues that accompany. He is an expert in public law and matters of subsidy control and private financing for public projects.
Steve CirellSteve C has worked in house in the public sector (latterly in a senior position), was an equity partner and in charge of local government work with an international law firm for 20 years and has written 18 books on various aspects of public law. He has advised across renewable projects mainly for local and public authorities.
Radhika DevesherRadhika is a Senior Associate at Sharpe Pritchard specialising in contracts and procurement. She has over 10 years’ experience working in-house with a local authority, therefore has a thorough understanding of challenges being faced in-house. She now advises central and local authority and “blue light” clients across a range of sectors including major infrastructure projects, waste, academies and leisure. She has a keen interest in making the legal world a “greener” place by ensuring green considerations are covered in all client projects where possible.
Ben Wallace
Ashleigh Boyce