The energy schemes will have a combined budget outlay of £20m and offers organizations to secure contracts to design and test energy storage technologies currently in the early stages of development.
First of the scheme covers large-scale energy storage demonstration projects while the second covers the research and feasibility studies into storage systems and their components.
DECC minister Greg Barker remarked that the ability to store energy will balance the electricity network while aiding the use more clean green power.
"This investment will help boost innovation in this area and bring more technologies into this growing market," added Barker.
