Scottish companies Sunamp and StorTera have been awarded the cash from a UK government competition.
Two Scottish firms have been awarded a total of more than £14m by the UK government to help them develop new energy storage technologies.
And StorTera in Edinburgh will get £5m towards a prototype demonstrator of its single liquid flow battery technology.The government said the technologies aimed to increase the resilience of the UK's electricity grid, while maximising value for money.Sunamp wants to extend its existing heat battery to provide increased storage duration and capacity, and pair it with household energy systems to tackle periods of low renewables generation on the grid.
It plans to utilise recycled and recyclable materials, such as a by-product of the wood industry, and reuse sulphur from oil and gas.StorTera said the technology would offer flexibility to the grid by storing electricity which could then be released when weather-dependent technologies such as wind turbines and solar panels had periods of decreased energy generation.
"Energy storage helps us get the full benefit of these renewables, improving efficiency and helping drive down costs in the long term.
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