Introduction: This project proposal is aimed at developing and installing an Energy Storage System (ESS) on ENWLs Network, it is intended to carry out initial research on the technical and economic factors and ESS specification development funded under IFI and then install an ESS funded by other means.

Objectives: The project consists of two elements:

• An academic investigation of the technical and commercial benefits and costs (and risks) of energy storage and a key deliverable is the development of a specification of an energy storage system

• The purchase and installation and monitoring of an energy storage system, funded under Tier 1 of the Low Carbon Network Fund.