UK Power News July-August 2020

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THE LEEDS DISTRICT HEATING PROJECT using heat generated from household waste at the city’s Recycling & Energy centre facility. Page 18 Kiwi Power, a leading global energy technology company which is simplifying distributed energy, reports it has just commissioned the final 5MW of battery storage at South Somerset District Council’s (SSDC) groundbreaking site at Fideoak Mill in Taunton. The additional ÂŁ2.5m investment brings the site’s total capacity to 30MW, the UK’s largest council-owned battery storage site. Kiwi Power’s proprietary hardware, Fruit, was installed on all 22 battery units so that the site can provide grid balancing services.. “Councils across the UK are seeking to make the most out of their sustainability and carbon emissions investments as they seek to meet increasingly stringent targets. Landmark projects such as Fideoak are vital for demonstrating how investments in battery storage and renewables are value adding and income generatingâ€? Thomas Jennings, Head of Optimisation comments. “With rapidly changing market dynamics, SSDC will be relying on our cooptimisation team to ensure that the ÂŁ12m asset always participates in the right

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Final 5MW goes live at UK’s largest council-owned battery storage site market at the right time so that it delivers the maximum return possible for the investment� Jennings added. David Owen, Director of Opium Power said: “Our partnership with South Somerset District Council and Kiwi Power has worked extremely well.� He explains: “The 30MW Taunton Battery Energy Storage System is the first of several very exciting joint ventures with local authorities and private sector investors that Opium Power is progressing to deliver stability to a sustainably-powered grid.

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“We currently have an additional 110MW in design and build on three new battery storage systems, and we intend to work with Kiwi Power on all of them.The UK has already accepted that we must adapt our electricity generation system to be carbon zero compliant by the use of renewables. “Grid scale battery storage is the essential required component to stabilise the inherently unstable and nondispatchable energy generated by solar and wind.� In June 2020, Kiwi Power commissioned the first 25MW of the project in just four days.

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