PODCAST: UK blackouts and Tesla’s travails

August 28, 2019
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Inside the UK’s first grid-scale lithium-ion battery system, in Leighton Buzzard, England. Image: UK Power Networks.

In the first in a new series of podcasts from our publisher Solar Media, Energy-Storage.News editor Andy Colthorpe and Current± editor Liam Stoker discuss the headlines, causes and remedies for the blackouts which affected more than one million consumers in the UK in early August, and take a look at the latest episode in the Tesla saga.

The podcast can be streamed below and is also available at Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify and (pretty much) anywhere else that hosts quality podcasts, where you can also subscribe and be the first to hear future episodes.

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