Fluence commissions 11MW battery at Killala

• Greencoat Renewables will use the BESS in County Mayo, Ireland to participate in energy flexibility markets

Fluence has actually supplied a 11MW battery power storage system for Greencoat Renewables' Killala Community Wind Farm in the Republic of Ireland.

The 10.8 MW battery, situated in County Mayo, has actually gone into the commissioning phase.

Greencoat Renewables will certainly use the system to join energy flexibility markets.

The project is the first investment in power storage space innovations by Greencoat Renewables as well as the first of any kind of business managed by Greencoat Capital.

Greencoat Renewables picked Fluence as its companion based upon an effective track record in deploying intricate battery-based power storage space systems with high configurability, as well as industry-leading integrity as well as safety criteria.

This is Fluence's third project entailing battery-based power storage co-located with wind farms in Ireland, as well as its tenth openly announced venture in the Irish Solitary Electrical Energy Market

Fluence UK, Ireland & Israel managing supervisor Marek Kubik stated: "We are pleased to be collaborating with Greencoat Capital on broadening the option of assets under their management by providing their initial battery-based power storage space system."

Ben Brooks, portfolio manager at Greencoat Renewables, added: "We are delighted to bring this project online ahead of timetable, with the group working carefully with Fluence to get over significant challenges postured by the pandemic including supply chain disturbances."

Earlier this year, Fluence as well as ESB, the proprietor of the distribution as well as transmission networks in the Republic of Ireland and also Northern Ireland, announced the conclusion of a purchase that will certainly supply the largest solitary energy storage space project in the EU by power capacity, as part of a wider 308 megawatt-hour fleet.