RWE has begun building of seven new photo voltaic and co-located battery initiatives within the United Kingdom.
The seven websites, positioned from North Devon to Lincolnshire, may have a mixed put in photo voltaic capability of 330 MW. The developer will set up a 35 MW BESS on the Langford website and a ten MW BESS on the Claydon website. It stated it’s constructing the opposite 5 websites to facilitate the longer term co-location of battery storage, with the intention to maximize one of the best use of the grid.
The primary of the seven websites is predicted to grow to be totally operational by the top of this 12 months. As soon as the entire websites are totally operational, they are going to be able to assembly the common annual electrical energy wants of over 140,000 typical UK properties.
“Fast to deploy and utilizing essentially the most fashionable photo voltaic applied sciences, we purpose to maximise the era potential of those websites for the UK; with a nationwide goal to extend photo voltaic capability fivefold by 2035 and related for battery storage, our initiatives will play a key function in serving to make sure the UK decarbonizes its energy grid and achieves its difficult internet zero targets,” stated Katja Wünschel, the CEO of RWE Renewables Europe & Australia.
RWE has set a goal of commissioning about 450 MW of latest UK photo voltaic capability per 12 months as much as 2030 in assist of the nationwide photo voltaic targets. Globally, it plans to extend its put in photo voltaic capability from 3.9 GW to 16 GW by 2030.
In February, the corporate introduced the development of a 450 MW plant in Greece and its first utility-scale storage facility within the Netherlands.
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