Comments on: Rough storage reaches final closure https://www.newpower.info/2017/06/rough-storage-reaches-final-closure/ Expert information for all those invested in the UK's energy future Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:08:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: Mark Howitt https://www.newpower.info/2017/06/rough-storage-reaches-final-closure/#comment-8969 Mark Howitt Fri, 07 Jul 2017 20:22:33 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=3462#comment-8969 Most European countries have 3-6 months’ gas consumption in storage, and deem under 3 months to be insufficient for system reliability, resilience and security. The vast majority of Britain’s mere 8 days’ storage were in Rough. Now we’re Brexiting, we can’t demand gas if we pay enough: our neighbours can easily say that their consumers are more important than ours at any price. When is the government and grid going to price energy security properly, to incentivise large scale storage and make it bankable?

The same applies to electricity, where it’s profitable (at least, ours will be) but not bankable, so not built.

Time for the government, Ofgem and National Grid to pull their heads out of the sand.

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