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There are small ones already in place, but you don't get to see them because they tend to be out the back of industrial sites or tacked on to solar arrays, like Tesla Powerwalls or Powerflow Sundials. There's nothing much to look with the bigger units at because they are just shipping containers full of batteries with the necessary control units.

EDF has one in operation at their West Burton site, it's been in operation since June 2018 and has 20 containers each with 2.45MW capacity.



Here's a pic of what they look like inside



Late last year they purchased Pivot Power, who are building one in Kent and one in Oxford (next to the Didcot station I believe). These are due on stream this year. I think EDF is planning for 10GW capacity over the next 15 years. The pic is a mock-up to give an idea of what they will look like.

I've been out of the loop for more than a year since I retired, the last time I was chatting to one of the guys from the renewables team he confessed that they weren't being able to proceed as fast as they wished because of the shortage of end of life EV batteries, they simply can't get their hands on as many as they want due to them lasting a lot longer in the cars than originally predicted.