A battery storage challenge developed by Pacific Inexperienced and owned by the Sosteneo Power Transition Fund is now linked and operational on the transmission community following work by Nationwide Grid to plug the ability into its 400 kV Richborough substation in Kent, U.Ok.
Richborough Power Park’s 100 MW battery will present grid stability companies and enhance community capability with the power to energy 250,000 houses for an hour, says Pacific Inexperienced.
The ability is managed by Pacific Inexperienced beneath a long run asset administration settlement and was Sosteneo’s first U.Ok. acquisition.
To make sure a secure connection, Nationwide Grid upgraded its Richborough substation to accommodate new switchgear and put in new safety and management methods on its supergrid transformer, plugging within the challenge through a tertiary connection.
Richborough substation already hosts the connection for Nationwide Grid’s personal 1 GW Nemo Hyperlink interconnector with Belgium, whereas Thanet Offshore Wind Farm additionally connects into an adjoining substation on the broader Richborough Power Park web site.
“It’s been a pleasure to work with the Nationwide Grid to develop Richborough Power Park, and we look ahead to persevering with our relationship with many extra initiatives to return,” says chairman and CEO of Pacific Inexperienced, Scott Poulter. “Having taken management of the location in 2021, I’m proud on the pace and effectivity with which my workforce has steered the challenge to monetary shut in summer season 2022, first energisation a yr later, full energisation final month and now into industrial operation.”
The Richborough web site occupies land the place a coal energy station generated electrical energy from the early sixties by to 1996, and stood till its 2012 demolition.
