The UK has long been a leading market for battery energy storage adoption, in turn because of its early and strong adoption of offshore wind power. A few months ago we covered the revival of the pumped hydro industry there after a four-decade hiatus, with a single 1.8 GW / 32 GWh SSE Renewables project set to almost double national capacity, while the total pipeline of projects is to quadruple pumped hydro storage capacity. Now the UK is to host another full-size storage fleet – this time liquid air energy storage (LAES) projects, with London-headquartered Highview Power taking advantage of a long-duration energy storage (LDES) investment support scheme to propose 10 GWh across four projects – with stated goals of…