About the Project

The proposed Stoneworthy Energy Storage System is located on land south of Pyworthy substation, approximately 1.3km southwest of Pyworthy village.

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We are liaising with Torridge District Council and will be undertaking a number of technical and environmental surveys to ensure that any potential impact from the development is appropriately assessed and mitigated. These detailed studies are due to be completed in the coming months ahead of preparing a planning application for submission later this year.

What is an Energy Storage System? 

Increasing the installed capacity of energy storage is essential to enabling and accelerating the rollout of zero carbon energy to support the UK’s net-zero emissions target. 

Renewable energy technologies are needed to replace electricity generation from fossil fuels, however, they generate electricity intermittently depending on weather conditions. This causes problems for the national grid network which must be finely balanced; electrical demand must match electrical generation at all times. If this balance is not achieved, it can lead to blackouts and the failure of grid circuits.  

 Our electricity system is in a transitionary period to manage these increasingly complex supply and demand needs of the 21st Century, and energy storage systems will play a key part by maintaining this balance. 

 Energy storage helps support National Grid by storing energy at times when generation exceeds demand and releasing electricity back to the national grid network when demand exceeds generation.  Energy storage is also considered the fastest technology for responding to a sudden spike in demand or an abrupt loss of supply.  Electricity is not physically generated on site.

RES has been working in the battery energy storage market for a decade and design safe storage projects using proven Lithium-ion technology. RES has developed over 700MW of energy storage projects across the UK and Ireland and currently manage over 600MW of operational storage projects with 24/7/365 monitoring provided from our control centre in Glasgow.