Who decided that “energy efficiency, demand response, and distributed generation” were the “preferred resources” anyway? That was a badly flawed analysis.

A logical, holistic analysis around the turn of the century would have avoided the paralysis.

“a much needed market signal that energy storage will be considered as a key asset.”

There never can be a functional ‘market’ with monopoly infrastructure. That’s just brainless ideology.

In the UK, this lunacy is terminal, because we don’t have any public bodies in a position to decide what procurement is necessary, short-term or long-term! Policy is all about inventing new market “incentives”, which inevitably means (the consumer) paying top price, or nothing gets built.

One section of the asylum wants 26GW of nuclear and another section 26GW of new gas-fired plant. At best, one third would like to see 26GW of off-shore wind, but they haven’t even thought about energy storage yet!