Households are set to be given free “plug-in batteries” to allow them to store power to help cut their energy bills, The i Paper can reveal.
About the size of a cabin suitcase, a plug-in battery acts like a power bank to store cheap electricity when demand is low and release it later when energy prices are higher.
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has worked up a proposal which would see the Government bulk-buy the devices and distribute them to low-income homes, The i Paper has learned.
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Plug-in batteries are portable energy storage units that can be plugged into a socket without any household rewiring.
