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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What is an Energy Storage System?
The way in which we use, and generate, electricity is changing. Our electricity system is in a transitionary period to manage the increasingly complex supply and demand needs of the 21st Century, and battery energy storage systems provide an important role in this.
Battery energy storage technology supports the variable generation of renewable energy technologies by playing an important balancing and grid stability role. Battery 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.
Increasing energy storage installed capacity will be vital to support England’s net-zero emissions target and help to deliver a reliable, resilient, decarbonised electricity system for the future. Battery energy storage is considered the fastest technology for responding to a sudden spike in demand or an abrupt loss of supply.
Battery energy storage can also provide grid stability (frequency of the grid) services on a second-by-second basis as well as providing additional network capacity, particularly at times of network stress.
Battery energy storage has a key role in cost-effectively decarbonising the power sector by 2030. They help to balance the electricity system at a lower cost by maximising the output of variable generation as well as minimising both network upgrades and the need for new infrastructure. Short-duration flexibility offered by technologies such as BESS, could reduce energy system costs by up to £10bn per year by 20501 through minimising the need for new peaking generation, such as expensive gas, and network assets.
RES has been working in the battery energy storage market for a decade and design safe storage projects using proven Lithium iron phosphate technology. RES has developed over 830MW 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.
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