Anesco has agreed to give up half the demand capacity at its Larport battery storage facility in Herefordshire on winter evenings, in exchange for a reduction in the charge levied by WPD, the local distribution network operator (DNO).

The battery currently has 19.5MW of import and export capacity. Under the new arrangement, on winter weekday evenings it will relinquish 10MW of that import, in exchange for a reduction in DNO charges estimated at 25%.