InterGen reveals UK's biggest battery storage project with 320MW Essex site

• InterGen has actually gotten intending authorization for the UK's biggest battery storage project, which will be built at DP Word London Gateway on the Thames Estuary in Essex.

The ₤ 200 million project will certainly add at the very least 320MW/640MWh of capability, with the opportunity of more broadening to 1.3 GWh. This would put it at ten times the size of the biggest battery operation currently in the UK according to the business.

With the share of renewables continuing to expand, the demand to balance the grid via the use of innovations such as storage is continuing to expand alongside it. Therefore, InterGen's battery-- which is readied to be utilized to support as well as stabilise existing electrical power materials-- will stand for a significant item of the system architecture.

InterGen CEO Jim Lightfoot stated the firm was "delighted" to be provided approval for the Gateway project by the Department for Business, Energy as well as Industrial Strategy.

" Our goal is to deliver the versatile power remedies that every person counts on in a reduced carbon world, and this project is a significant statement of intent.

" We are excited to be getting in a new stage in our growth as an organisation, and will certainly continue to discover opportunities to establish projects which can support the power shift."

Construction is anticipated to get under way in 2022, and also the battery to come to be functional in 2024.

Additionally, InterGen is aiming to establish another large range battery project at its site in Spalding, Lincolnshire. This would be a 175MW/350MWh site, and intending consent is currently in position.

The Edinburgh-headquartered independent power generator currently provides around 5% of the UK's producing ability, with natural gas sites in Coryton in Essex (800MW), Spalding in Lincolnshire (1,250 MW) and Rocksavage in Cheshire (810MW).