DECC Policy For Microgrid & Battery Storage - Where Is It?

There appears to be a huge void where government policy for the future of renewables should be? Although the Governments UK Renewable Energy Roadmap was launched in 2011 and last updated in 2013, with DECC intending that the next Update to the Renewable Energy Roadmap will be published in late 2015, there is no current and cohesive plan to remove supply & demand pressure from the grid via renewables.
 
Certainly, one obvious and cost effective answer has to be the development of Microgrids (which overtime will become Smartgrids) with cogeneration of renewable electricity (solar pv and wind) and on-site production of heat (fuel cell CHP for example) with battery storage, allowing control of variable generation and peaky demand. Surely, this is where policy should be focused?
 
And what a case there is for Microgrids and battery storage right now, considering the delays, financial and security issues that surround Hinkley Point C; the rapid closure of coal-fired power stations and the real threat of brown outs or worse still, black outs, this and next winter as the UK is seriously facing the issue of not having enough dispatchable generation to meet peak demand.
 
If renewable Microgrids were supported by Government, then safe, secure and carbon free de-centralised electricity supply can be provided, without the need for nuclear and fossil fuel power stations and at the same time, reduce the demand on the failing transmission and distribution network. The mid to long term policy planning and legislation for renewables is non-existent. Why?
 
The storage of renewable energy should be paramount to DECC's thinking and policy making and it is in our national interest; each and every hard working bill payers interest, for the Government to support the deployment of this technology through the introduction of new subsidy and investor incentive schemes for utilizing storage technology on a large scale.