Harmony Energy partners with FRV for utility-scale storage space project

• Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) and also Harmony Energy have signed up with pressures to commission their very first utility-scale battery system in the UK.

The project will include 6 Tesla Megapack lithium-ion batteries, with a total capability of 15MWh. It will make use of Tesla's 'Autobidder' AI software program.

FRV, an international renewable energy options supplier, will collaborate with British Harmony Energy on the power storage space project at Holes Bay, Poole, Dorset, that will certainly be made use of to provide versatility to the grid.

Peter Kavanagh, president of Harmony Energy, claimed utility-scale battery power storage space is "essential to the future of the UK's energy supply".

It is "often viewed as the missing link in the UK's renewable energy method, both in regards to controlling grid regularity as well as offering back-up during durations of peak demand and also supply. We're thrilled to have worked very closely with FRV and also Tesla to complete this project, which is the initial in our pipe of battery power storage space plant to be integrated in the UK."

The announcement adheres to on from Harmony Energy acquiring planning approval for two significant power storage projects in the last year. In November 2019, the company got the go on for a 49.5 MW battery energy storage space system at the Creyke Beck substation in Cottingham, near to Hull.

In March, the business revealed one more 49.5 MW battery power storage space system was moving forwards, with a site in Salisbury, Wiltshire acquiring planning approval. Harmony currently has 500MW of battery energy storage assets that are construction-ready in the UK, with an additional 200MW in preparation.

The Holes Bay power storage project will be connected to the Southern Electric Power circulation network, and will note FRV's first step right into the storage space market.

Felipe Hernández, managing supervisor of engineering as well as property monitoring of FRV, claimed: "Holes Bay will be the very first project in a tactical power storage space pipeline [for FRV] to be launched internationally. We delight in to join together with Harmony Energy in this project that demonstrates the economic and technical expediency of the battery power storage space system while supporting the advancement of UK's calculated sustainable energy program."