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NETWORK / 38 / MAY 2017 OUTPUT MAY 1MW The battery size of a project in Cornwall aiming to show how storage and solar can provide reliable, cheap energy all day and night. 61% The share National Grid sold in its gas distribution business to a consortium of international investors. Turn up the heat "Funding for the Heat Networks Investment Programme should be extended to 2030 to build up a larger pipeline of projects and give long-term certainty to investors." INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH (IPPR) REPORT Out to tender "It's far better if regulated assets and regulated parties – the DNOs and National Grid – go out to tender, because if they go out to tender then somebody can provide a range of services with that asset." IAN GRAVES, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL GRID'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ARM Political rhetoric "In Britain, political rhetoric has not yet caught up with a rapidly changing reality. Politicians are arguing over whether or not to subsidise renewables without seeing how technology has changed the big picture. They believe that they hold the pursestrings." GREEN ALLIANCE REPORT PEOPLE POWER: HOW CONSUMER CHOICE IS CHANGING THE UK ENERGY SYSTEM £25 million The amount BEIS plans to invest in a new programme exploring the use of hydrogen for heating. DUNCAN BOTTING MANAGING DIRECTOR GLOBAL SMART TRANSFORMATION "All the different aspects of life mentioned here are underpinned by the timely, reliable and resilient delivery of energy through our complex power infrastructure."