UK's largest council-owned battery storage space site further increased to 30MW

• The UKs largest council-owned battery storage space site, the 30MW Fideoak Mill website, is currently completely operational.

Situated at South Somerset District Council's (SSDC) website in Taunton, an added ₤ 2.5 countless investment has permitted the council to commission a more 5MW, making it the largest site of its kind in the UK.

It makes use of Kiwi Power's exclusive hardware Fruit, which has actually been mounted on all 22 battery systems at the site. These will enable the batteries to provide balancing services to National Grid as well as join any of the UK's 15 versatility markets.

Thomas Jennings, head of optimization at Kiwi Power, claimed that councils were seeking to make the most of sustainability investments in an effort to satisfy "increasingly stringent targets."

" Landmark projects such as Fideoak are important for demonstrating just how financial investments in battery storage and also renewables are worth including as well as earnings generating," he proceeded.

" With rapidly transforming market dynamics, SSDC will certainly be counting on our co-optimisation team to make certain that the ₤ 12 million property always participates in the appropriate market at the right time so that it provides the optimum return possible for the financial investment."

SSDC partnered with Opium Power, Kiwi Power, Western Power Distribution (WPD), BYD, National Grid and BSR Group among others for the project. The battery devices themselves were offered by BYD Europe BV.

David Owen, director of Opium Power, claimed the collaboration had worked well, and also would be the very first of numerous "very amazing joint endeavors with local authorities" for the business.

" We presently have an extra 110MW in style and also build on 3 brand-new battery storage systems, and we intend to collaborate with Kiwi Power on all of them.

" The UK has already accepted that we must adjust our power generation system to be carbon absolutely no certified by the use renewables, as well as certainly the government has actually legislated for it. Grid range battery storage space is the necessary needed part to stabilise the naturally unstable and also non-dispatchable energy generated by solar as well as wind."

According to Kiwi, the SSDC website is uncommon as the controller requires to be able to turn off the batteries with immediate impact in feedback to a signal from WPD. Therefore the modern technology firm needed to develop a solution that can translate the incoming signal and also send off each of the 22 units at the same time.

The very first 25MW at the Fideoak Mill site was appointed in 4 days in June, after first prepare for the then c. 9.8 million project were introduced in 2018. The choice to increase the website even more to 30MW was first introduced in October 2019.