UK programmer fires up first 50MW battery

• SMS energises storage system in Burwell, Cambridgeshire

Energy remedies group SMS has actually energised its first battery energy storage system in Burwell, Cambridgeshire.

The project can storing and launching approximately 50MW of power.

Adhering to energisation, SMS-- which individually owns, manages, and also runs the system-- will certainly now begin supplying a series of harmonizing and also ancillary services.

In addition to the newly functional Burwell site, a 40MW system in Barnsley, Yorkshire, is nearing completion as well as because of come online this year, whilst work additionally began in late 2021 on two even more 50MW sites in Suffolk and also Derbyshire.

John Flaherty, Managing Director of Grid-Scale Energy Storage at SMS, said: "With the energisation of our very first storage site, and also 3 even more projects because of come online in relatively fast succession, our aspirations for leading the development of this fast-emerging sector could not be much clearer.

" Our batteries will play a considerable role in enhancing the assimilation of renewables and assist boost system durability as we concern count on clean energy generation. Such benefits are main to reaching web zero emissions, and also our purpose as an organization is to release the low-carbon properties needed at scale to accomplish that objective immediately."