Complaint
This online article provided a brief summary of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the UK and how they can store electricity generated from renewable sources to meet future electricity demand.聽 It included a contribution from a professor of public policy and sustainability which, in the view of a reader, gave a misleading impression of the UK鈥檚 current energy storage capacity.聽 The ECU considered the complaint in the light of the 91热爆鈥檚 editorial standards of accuracy.聽
Outcome
The ECU established that the professor had been referring to generating capacity, not storage capacity.聽 However, his contribution had been placed in a context where readers聽 would probably have understood him to be referring to the latter, and would have formed an inaccurate view of the UK鈥檚 current storage capacity as a result.
Upheld
Further action
The finding was discussed with the journalists concerned and the article has been appropriately amended.