Sumitomo is aiming to expand battery energy storage in Japan with UK experience on the leafy outskirts of Leicester, a city in the East Midlands of England, a modest country home to 30 shipping containers. The long rows of boxes are filled with a combination of batteries and inverters, capable of storing enough energy to power 160,000 homes for two hours.

Sumitomo is aiming to expand battery energy storage in Japan with UK experience on the leafy outskirts of Leicester, a city in the East Midlands of England, a modest country home to 30 shipping containers. The long rows of boxes are filled with a combination of batteries and inverters, capable of storing enough energy to power 160,000 homes for two hours.