SSE acquires first battery storage project

• Developer gets 50MW system in Wiltshire from Harmony Energy

SSE has obtained the project growth civil liberties from Harmony Energy to create its very first 50MW battery storage space asset on a consented site in Wiltshire.

The programmer intends to bring the project to financial close and also construct the battery storage facility at Salisbury over the next 18 months.

The project will certainly after that aid supply essential harmonizing services to the energy system.

SSE's dispersed energy department has a team of developers, designers, and also energy solution specialists actively expanding its battery storage pipeline.

Harmony Energy Limited is a programmer of utility-scale battery energy storage projects.

It has established 2 projects in the UK, with a pipe of over 600MW of project civil liberties.

SSE's market supervisor for dispersed generation & storage space Richard Cave-Bigley stated: "As we put much more renewable energy on the grid and also terminate fossil fuels, battery storage space has an essential duty to play in aiding the UK decarbonise.

" Our distributed energy department has ambitions to develop a substantial portfolio of batteries-- we're taking a look at around 500MW of onset possibilities-- as well as we hope today's statement indicates the seriousness of our intent in this market."

Harmony Energy president Peter Kavanagh added: "The website has been four years development work in the making, showing our proficiency in bringing forward complex battery storage growths to construction-ready stage.

" It's wonderful for SSE to have actually revealed their confidence as well as allow our divestment.

" We share their vision and also interest to assist increase the deployment of energy storage space which is basic to the UK's energy mix and also allowing the reduction of carbon emissions."

SSE's distributed energy group [part of its Energy Solutions unit] objectives to play a huge part in the emerging flexible energy system and also offers vital solutions to allow customers to gain from new methods to optimize and also handle their reduced carbon energy usage.

It does this by adopting a "whole system method" via investing in, structure and linking localized, flexible energy possessions to speed up the path to internet zero and produce a more resistant energy system for the long-lasting.