This village in the U.K. is the unlikely testing ground for a new technology to store and use local power for longer, bypassing the grid and cutting energy bills. This month dozens of homes in Oxspring will have a home battery installed to see if they can make solar power more valuable to homeowners and less painful for grid managers. The batteries are smaller than the high-profile Powerwalls introduced by Tesla last year. The project is a response to what until recently would have seemed an improbable challenge for the U.K.: too much solar power. There are now 875,000 homes with solar photovoltaic panels, and that is beginning to pose issues for network operators.
This village is solving the problem of too much sun with batteries
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