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pioneer expands into flexibility
Biogas generation
UK Power Reserve (UKPR) has picked Fluence to install a pipeline of 120MW of battery storage capacity across the country. Energy storage technology
and services company Fluence, a joint venture between Siemens and AES, will be responsible for the entire project, believed to be the largest contracted energy storage portfolio transaction. UKPR had previously
already contracted Fluence to deliver 60MW of battery
said: “By splitting our portfolio into two 60MW sets of projects, we’ve had the opportunity to fully assess the market and took a nimble
online by winter 2020 but are expected to be delivered by the end of summer 2019. Sam Wither, Head of UKPR
storage and today confirmed it has awarded the rest of the capacity, all of which was secured in the 2016 Capacity Market auction to provide flexible services to the grid. The sites are required to be
industry powerhouses and pioneers in energy storage joining together to form a new company dedicated to inno- vating modern electric infra- structure. The JV (Joint Venture) in
which Siemens and AES launched Fluence effectively united the scale, experience, breadth, and financial backing of the two most experienced icons in energy storage, reports a company spokesman. The Fluence team
change by opening new markets to storage around the world, and currently claims the largest deployed fleet of energy storage projects of any company.
Pioneer of biogas generation, Ylem Energy Ltd
(formerly ENER-G Natural Power) has announced that it is expanding its business into providing flexible generation, large-scale energy storage and demand- side response systems that will bolster grid resilience and help businesses save money. Having recently secured the exclusive UK rights to large-
scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) from Dowell, a leading global provider, Ylem Energy will be showcasing the technology with a 1MW battery energy storage system that will be co-hosted at a UK-based landfill-gas generation site in the spring of 2019. This agreement signifies the culmination of Ylem
Energy’s investment in flexible generation technologies and complements the company’s move into owning and operating natural-gas-powered peaking facilities at several sites across the UK. Ian Gadsby, managing director of Ylem Energy Ltd,
commented: “We’re delighted to be able to offer this cutting-edge storage technology into the UK market. “ For almost thirty years, we’ve operated our own fleet of
smart energy generation systems that run on gaseous fuels and these storage systems provide an excellent opportunity for us to move further towards providing a range of flexible generation technologies that meet the market conditions created by the modern-day grid operation and energy market.” These systems will be used in two ways, one will be to
provide network resilience by coming online at short notice to meet the demands of the network – particularly where fluctuations in renewable generation from wind and solar have an impact. The other will be to help reduce our industrial and commercial clients’ reliance on costly peak- time energy tariffs as a wider package of measures. The 1MW pilot BESS project, which is planned to be
commissioned in early 2019, will be located at a UK-based landfill site and provide flexibility services to the electricity grid, utilising energy generated from landfill gas. Ylem Energy has said it will be releasing further details
of both the systems and this initial project in the coming months. Dowell - formally known as Shanghai Dowell Technology
Co. Ltd, Dowell was founded in 2009 and has attracted investment from international venture capitalist IDG as a Sino-US joint venture, with some 51.92 million RMB registered capital. The company was publicly listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange Center in 2014.
4 Edinburgh-based demand response firm Flexitricity reports that it has won
government funding for a project which aims to allow smaller commercial energy users to access Britain’s electricity balancing market. Flexitricity has secured almost £500,000 from the Department of Business, Energy and
Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for its Quickturn project. Quickturn is intended to let small-to-medium sized enterprises – including those that are part
of larger, multi-site estates, such as supermarket chains – to participate in the UK’s balancing mechanism. It will use flexible energy-consuming assets such as cold storage, air conditioning and heat pumps to help National Grid balance the fluctuating demands of the UK energy system. Flexitricity founder Dr Alastair Martin comments: “Quickturn will help these sites reduce
energy costs and earn revenue through providing electricity system balancing services to National Grid. Previously, participation has not been economically viable for smaller sites due to the cost of hardware, communications and implementation.” Flexitricity is currently recruiting business to take part and is also partnering with the
University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Digital Communications, which will contribute its expertise in emerging technology to increase communication speed and reliability, and reduce the overall cost of setting up DSR dispatch systems.
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2018 UK POwER NEwS
Flexitricity wins UK government funding for SME grid balancing project
encompasses more than 10 years of experience deploy- ing and operating energy storage. Fluence feels it is driving
more than 675MW of projects deployed or contracted in 16 countries. Fluence is the result of two
rapidly evolving space.” Fluence has a global fleet of
approach to keep up with this
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