Global Trade Alert
Global Trade Alert

United Kingdom: National Wealth Fund provides funding for a battery storage consortium

Announcement

27 Aug 2025

In August 2025, the UK National Wealth Fund joined Equitix and Aware Super in a GBP 500 million investment to establish Eelpower Energy, a new platform to build, own, and operate grid-scale battery storage assets across the UK.

Source

Sign in to access

Number of interventions

1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

27 Aug 2025

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Announced: 27 Aug 2025
Equity stake In force
On 27 August 2025, the UK government’s National Wealth Fund (NWF) announced an equity support of up to GBP 200 million (USD 269.4 million) in Eelpower Energy, a new UK battery storage platform. Eelpow...
Sign in to see more

Threads

See all

Harmful Trade Policy Measures

This Thread tracks harmful trade policy interventions affecting all products. Covering all types of interventions monitored by Global Trade Alert, it highlights how the yearly number of these measures has evolved over time.

Published: 04 Sep 2024

70643

interventions

194

jurisdictions

G7: Harmful Trade Policy Interventions

This Thread tracks harmful trade policy interventions introduced by G7 members since 2009. It covers all types of interventions monitored by Global Trade Alert.

Published: 13 Jan 2025

25529

interventions

38

jurisdictions

G20: Harmful Trade Policy Interventions

This Thread tracks harmful trade policy interventions introduced by G20 members since 2009. It covers all types of interventions monitored by Global Trade Alert.

Published: 15 Jan 2025

53974

interventions

121

jurisdictions