Statkraft to trade 100MW Northern Ireland storage

• Energy supplier will supply market accessibility and optimisation services for battery pair in Counties Tyrone as well as Armagh

Statkraft will give market access as well as optimisation solutions for 100MW of battery energy storage projects in Northern Ireland in support of Gore Street Energy Storage Fund.

This offer, covering 2 50MW projects with Gore Street, follows Statkraft's recent announcements of an extra 68MW of market-access arrangements in the Republic of Ireland.

The grid batteries are located near Drumkee, County Tyrone as well as in Mullavilly, Region Armagh.

Statkraft previously created and also developed the initial big range storage battery (11MW) in Region Kerry, Ireland in 2019 as well as is currently appointing a second larger project (26MW) nearby.

Both 50MW projects were created collectively by Gore Street and also financial investment and asset-management company Low Carbon.

Both were energised on schedule in December.

Statkraft will offer general market accessibility as well as trading optimisation solutions for the properties, assisting to handle the projects in the incorporated single electricity market and "maximise the value" attained from the battery storage projects across various services.

The possessions will provide rapid frequency feedback and also gets to the grid under the System Driver for Northern Ireland (SONI) and EirGrid's DS3 System Solutions program.

They will also sell the wholesale energy markets, utilizing Statkraft's automated trading platform, UNITY.

Statkraft energy storage space head Nick Heyward said: "We are extremely pleased to be working with Gore Street to optimize and take care of these important storage assets out there, which will certainly supply a key source of low-carbon flexibility in the Northern Irish electricity system.

" The projects will certainly include considerably to our expanding portfolio of flexible properties across both Ireland and also Northern Ireland, which is expected to surpass 200MW this year."

Gore Street's websites sign up with around 500MW of third-party distributed flexible generation and also battery storage space capacity which Statkraft already optimises alongside nearly 4000MW of pre-dominantly third-party renewables generation across Ireland and also the UK.

Statkraft's fully automated trading platform, UNITY, incorporates intermittent renewable generation and flexible properties.