Ecoenergy picks team to supply 50MW Yorkshire battery

• Developer has actually signed EPC agreement with Trina Storage and also G2 Energy for its Swangate project

Econergy Renewable Energy has actually settled an engineering procurement and also building (EPC) agreement for a 50MW (102 megawatt hr) battery energy storage system in north England.

The EPC agreement for the energy storage project in Yorkshire was made between Econergy and a consortium containing Trina Storage as well as G2 Energy.

The Swangate project becomes part of a wider pipe of storage projects in the UK that Ecoenergy is creating that amounts to virtually 2.6 gigawatt hrs.

Econergy is creating its storage projects in 2 configurations, as co-location projects along with its 900MW solar pipeline, and as stand-alone grid-support storage projects.

Econergy anticipates its complete pipeline of renewable projects in the UK to be functional by 2025.

G2 is a contracting business in the storage market in the UK and also Ireland which has actually been in charge of more than 400 connections to the national power grid in the UK with an overall ability of over 3GW.

Trina Storage has more than 500MW of linked storage projects.

Eyal Podhorzer, Econergy's chief executive officer, said: "We are delighted to have secured the EPC agreement with Trina as well as G2 for our Swangate storage project in the UK.

" This is the initial storage project in Econergy's pipe which has actually reached this stage, marking a substantial turning point for the company.

" The UK is a key market for Econergy and is leading the growth of storage modern technology around the world, which will certainly accelerate the energy change by reducing the intermittency of renewables as well as lowering our dependence on fossil fuels.

" This project will certainly help us to end up being a key player in the UK storage market as we aim to continue broadening our portfolio of projects under development in the country."

Terry Chen, Head of Overseas Storage, Trina Storage said: "We have invested heavily to create our internal utility scale LFP battery storage system.

" The Swangate battery project is the very first offer featuring our up and down integrated item Elementa in the UK.

" As part of this project, Trina Storage will provide a totally incorporated BESS service with world-class safety criteria and abilities built into every aspect of system layout and also delivery. We are very happy to be collaborating with Econergy and G2 Energy to provide this project efficiently and also a lot more in future."