Pivot Power secures preparing for storage space duo

• 50MW battery projects in Bedfordshire as well as in Cornwall are due online in 2023 as well as 2024

Pivot Power, part of EDF Renewables, has won intending authorization for two brand-new grid-scale battery storage space centers in Bedfordshire as well as Cornwall.

The initial project, in Sundon near Luton, comprises a 50MW/100 megawatt-hour (MWh) lithium ion center anticipated to start building in early 2023.

It will be connected to National Grid's Sundon substation later in the year.

As soon as created, Pivot Power will also create an exclusive wire for electrical vehicle (EV) charging.

The other project, in Indian Queens, is also for a 50MW/100MWh battery.

Pivot Power will certainly share a grid connection with two other programmers, including Renewable Connections, which sent a joint preparation application with Pivot Power.

Both companies have actually received consent for a 50MW/100 MWh battery each for construction as well as connection to the National Grid in 2024.

Pivot Power will also sustain the regional community by including a personal wire once the battery is live, assisting to bolster the EV charging infrastructure in Cornwall.

Alongside a comparable site in the West Midlands, which started construction last year, the Sundon and Indian Queens battery storage space centers will duplicate core components of Pivot Power's Energy Superhub Oxford project.

The Oxford site will incorporate a cutting-edge 50 MW hybrid battery with an EV charging network, offering a "plan for towns and cities across the UK to reduce carbon exhausts as well as support lasting financial development".

Pivot Power CEO Matt Allen said: "Pivot Power's wise power infrastructure will certainly assist to manage the intermittency of renewables and improve the resilience of the UK's electricity system.

" Working very closely with local councils, we will certainly assist to create a smarter, a lot more flexible grid and also turbo charge the course to web zero."

John Leith, growth supervisor at Renewable Connections claimed: "We have worked very closely with Pivot Power as well as National Grid to design as well as consent a mixed battery storage asset suitable for connection at the end of the transmission network in Cornwall."

Pivot Power's portfolio of Energy Superhubs in the UK will support EDF's ambition to end up being "Europe's leading e-mobility energy firm by 2023" and creates a vital column of its plan to develop an extra 10 GW of battery storage space around the world by 2035.