Pivot Power awards two UK storage space agreements
- Maintech Power will offer electric maintenance services to 50MW Kent centers
Fulcrum Group subsidiary Maintech Power has actually secured a professional high voltage electric upkeep contract with Pivot Power, part of EDF Renewables, for two UK projects.
Maintech Power will provide recurring electric upkeep services for 2 new 50MW battery storage centers situated in Kent and also Oxford, which are connected to National Grid's high voltage transmission network.
The batteries will certainly share their grid connection with high quantity power connections for mass-scale, fast EV charging.
The very first of these will certainly be set up in Oxford, where Pivot Power is leading Energy Superhub Oxford, a project to increase the city's no carbon journey.
The 50MW battery storage space centers will certainly provide crucial flexibility to future-proof the UK's electricity system and also assistance a lot more intermittent renewable generation, assisting the country increase a net-zero future.
The 50MW lithium-ion batteries will react in nanoseconds to fluctuations in electrical power supply and demand, billing or discharging to keep the system secure.
These are the first projects finished as part of Pivot Power's program to create, own as well as operate approximately 2GW of grid-scale energy storage space and also high-volume power links that are straight attached to the UK high-voltage transmission system.
This contract is the most up to date in a series safeguarded by Maintech Power in support of low carbon energy production and also use.
Maintech Power taking care of supervisor Richard Jump said: "Pivot Power is establishing innovative remedies for the storage space and use clean electrical power, which we totally sustain as part of our dedication to add in the direction of the UK's journey to net-zero.
" Our professional Maintech designers are preferably put to make certain that the ambitions of this project to supply essential flexibility, with the boosted use of renewable electricity, can be satisfied and guarantee that it can run at optimal efficiency."
