UK households will be encouraged to make their own electricity and store in batteries

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Changes to the rules on electricity usage and storage could save UK consumers billions, including encouraging people to generate their own power and sell it to the National Grid, ministers added. The broadcaster added that the new rules will make it easier for consumers to generate their own power, via solar panels, store it in batteries and sell it to the National Grid. It comes as the Business Secretary, Greg Clark, announced the Government will invest £246m in developing battery technology Announcing the plans to spend the money over four years, Mr Clark will tell a meeting hosted by the Resolution Foundation in Birmingham: “To enjoy a high and rising standard of living we must plan to be more productive than in the past. “If we can do so, we can increase the earning power of our country and our people.” Mr Clark said there had been an “extraordinary” reaction to a Green Paper on the Industrial Strategy, with over 1,900 written responses, from new start-ups to big businesses and from organisations as diverse as the Premier League to the Women's Engineering Society.