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There are encouraging signs now—which, funnily enough, was not mentioned in the Blair report: the use of battery storage has grown significantly in the last few years. A friend of mine who I used to consort with in the other place, and who I saw at dinner the other day, said that he now has a number of containers occupying four and a half acres of his land in Wiltshire, and they are just taken up with buying in electricity when it is very cheap and then pressing a button when there is peak demand and the price is very high and letting it out again. This removes the peaks and troughs of electricity supply, which is always very useful and means that you need much less in terms of standby facilities.