Flexitricity optimises 20MW battery for Thrive

• Agreement covers the Feeder Road BESS in Bristol allowing it to operate throughout numerous markets

Flexitricity has become part of an agreement with Thrive Renewables to optimize a 20MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in Bristol, in the UK.

The agreement covers the system at Thrive's Feeder Road site and also is the beginning of a cooperation between both organisations.

The Feeder Road BESS will certainly be kept an eye on and also dynamically optimized from Flexitricity's control room in Edinburgh to operate across several markets, including frequency response, wholesale traded power, the Balancing Mechanism and also emerging flexibility services.

Flexitricity has actually a gotten online power plant of over 800MW as well as this contract presses the acquired portfolio of batteries to over 330MW.

Thrive Renewables has actually been constructing as well as operating renewable energy projects in the UK for 28 years, buying solar, geothermal, ground source heat as well as in very early commercial scale tidal generation capacity.

The renewable resource firm better expanded its portfolio when it introduced its first battery storage site, a 5MW site located in Wicken, in 2020.

The list below year, Thrive proceeded its advancement in battery storage with the launch of its Feeder Road site simply one mile away from its headquarters in Bristol.

Andy Lowe, Chief Executive Officer at Flexitricity, claimed: "Energy storage has a vital role to play in aiding the UK change to net zero as well as Flexitricity is preferably placed to increase revenue for asset proprietors, enabling them to develop a solid company case for financial investment in more green energy projects.

" As a result, an arrangement with Thrive, who are at the forefront of the renewable energy sector, brings wonderful synergies as well as we are thrilled to have them onboard."

Monika Paplaczyk, financial investment director at Thrive Renewables, stated: "Feeder Road will allow more deployment of wind as well as solar generation and will certainly aid to supply the backbone of the resilient, renewables controlled power grid the country requires going forward."