Two steps are required:
- DECC and Ofgem should review the regulatory and legal status of storage and remove outdated barriers to enable storage to compete fairly with generation across the various interlinked electricity markets. The reforms should be proposed by Spring 2017 and implemented as soon as possible thereafter
- Network owners should be incentivised by Ofgem to use storage (and other sources of flexibility) to improve the capacity and resilience of their networks as part of a more actively managed system.