NEWS
The Kent Renewable Energy Plant opens
The Kent Renewable Energy plant has opened at Discovery Park near Sandwich. This facility has a capacity of 27.8MW and is fired primarily with woodchip sourced locally in the UK.
Statera Energy in NatWest deal
has agreed with Natwest and is one of the first for a battery storage asset in the UK. Operational now for 6 months, the 49.9MW facility was commissioned in December 2017. The site won a two-year Firm Frequency Response contract to provide services to National Grid.
The entire biomass fuel required for this plant is being sourced under a long-term contract with Euroforest, one of the largest virgin wood suppliers in the UK. It is claimed the plant will deliver CO2 savings of approximately 100,000 tonnes every year. The plant is owned by a joint venture of Burmeister &
Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC) and a Danish infrastructure fund managed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, who together have invested around £160M in the project. The plant will be operated for up to 20 years by BWSC, which is also managing the construction of the project. The new plant has the capacity to produce energy corresponding to the power consumption of 50,000 households. Heat and some of the power is being delivered to Discovery Park, which is one of the UK’s leading science parks, with the remainder going to the National Grid. Euroforest, one of the biggest suppliers of wood and
wood products in the UK has been granted the contract to supply the Combined Heat and Power facility with its fuel for the next 20 years. Over the course of this period the company will supply
Kent Renewable Energy Ltd with 240,000 tonnes of wood fibre per annum – a mixture of hardwood and softwood logs, saw mill chippings and recycled wood materials. Tim Leavers, Business Development and Support Manager for Euroforest, said: “The team have been delighted so far with the welcome and support they’ve received at Discovery Park. “There’s a real sense of teamwork here with great facilities. Being located across the road from the biomass plant that we are supplying is clearly a bonus too. One of the reasons Discovery Park was selected as the location for this new biomass facility was the shared vision for green energy, which fitted in well with the project.”
Cleve Hill Solar Park, the joint-venture of Hive Energy and Wirsol intending to develop
a 350MW+ solar farm on the Kent coast, has - apparently - yet to make any decisions regarding the battery storage element of its plans, suggest some media sources. Cleve Hill Solar Park Ltd wants to include battery storage technology in addition to the PV
array in its Development Consent Order (DCO) application. Whilst the type and final number of batteries for the project is unknown, a range of scenarios will be presented in the application for the project. A statement issued by the company says: “Battery storage technology is a key part of the government’s Industrial Strategy. The technology can be used in a number of ways in support of renewable energy generation including time shifting output and balancing frequency response. Battery storage technology will be part of the solution to help the grid shift from fossils fuels to renewable energy. By acting to smooth the supply of renewable energy to the grid, battery storage will play a key role in enabling an integrated low carbon energy supply.” The company concludes: “Battery storage technology forms an intrinsic part of the proposal
for the Cleve Hill Solar Park and is an exciting part of the future of renewable energy generation,” a statement issued to Solar Power Portal read. Unlike common storage power plants, such as the pumped storage power plants with
capacities up to 1000 MW, the benefits of battery storage power plants move in the range of a few kW up to the MW range - as of 2017, the largest installed system has a storage capacity of 300 MWh. Battery storage power plants, like all storage power plants, primarily serve to cover peak load
and in networks with insufficient control power and the grid
stabilization.Small banks of rechargeable batteries with a few kWh of storage capacity, are mostly in the private sector operated in conjunction with wind turbines or similarly sized photovoltaic systems to daytime bring revenue surpluses in yield poorer or unproductive hours in the evening or at night, and to strengthen their own consumption. Sometimes battery storage power stations are built with flywheel storage power systems in order to conserve battery power.
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Statera Energy has clinched a refinancing deal for its 50MW Pelham utility- scale battery storage plant. The refinancing package
It also has also has a 15-year Capacity Market contract, commencing in 2020/21. The MD tor at Statera Energy, Tom Vernon, explains that the refinancing package demonstrates the bankability of battery storage and praised Natwest Bank’s “pragmatic” approach which was “essential in structure financing of this nature”. He says: “We believe that battery storage will play a pivotal role in facilitating the UK’s transition to low carbon
generation and thanks are due to all parties involved in delivering this landmark project. It has been an immense team effort where we have benefited from the full support and cooperation of UK Power Networks and National Grid.” The Pelham battery storage project is located near Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire. With a peak output of 49.99MW it has the potential to provide enough power for over 13,000 average UK homes at any moment in time. Statera Energy’s battery systems have been developed using proprietary control logic. According to the company
the new battery storage systems have been designed to deliver the most efficient, reliable service which can adapt to the various market conditions. The technology will help provide a secure supply of electricity to the end consumer at the lowest cost, reports Statera Energy.
Cleve Hill Solar Park still to decide on battery storage elements for the facility
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