Shell Energy Europe picked as optimiser for Pacific Green's 100MW BESS

Jun 10, 2022 12:53 PM ET
  • Pacific Green has actually chosen Shell Energy Europe Limited to optimize its 99.98 MW Richborough Energy Park battery energy storage space system (BESS).
Shell Energy Europe picked as optimiser for Pacific Green's 100MW BESS
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The company is developing the site in Kent, England, which is expected to be functional by June 2023. Shell will certainly have exclusive legal rights to offer optimisation and also trading services using the BESS's capacity for the following decade under the new contract.

" As one of the globe's most prominent energy carriers, Shell has verified itself to be a leader in the power trading and optimization fields," claimed Scott Poulter, Pacific Green's president.

" With this BESS growth readied to become one of the UK's largest batteries, discovering a seasoned as well as credible optimiser is important to the success of this project, and we are certain we have actually found that in Shell."

The collaboration is the most recent introduced by Pacific Green to support the development of the Richborough site. Earlier this month it assigned Instalcom Limited as the primary specialist and signed a battery supply contract with Shanghai Election Gotion New Energy Technology Co

In September, the firm announced that it had actually protected ₤ 23 million of debt funding to create the Richborough Energy Park BESS from merchant banking group Close Leasing.

Following this, Pacific Green additionally obtained a 249MW battery energy storage advancement from Sheaf Energy, as part of its exclusivity agreement with TUPA Energy as it functions to expand its portfolio of BESS in the UK.


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