The UK's biggest battery - which will power thousands of homes - is under construction by SSE Renewables at a Monk Fryston in Yorkshire.
The 320MW battery storage facility, which will run for up to two hours at a time, is located next to the National Grid’s existing substation.
Renewable sources of energy, such as offshore wind are leading the net zero revolution; but industry experts say we need more than turbines to decarbonise.
Alan Greenwood’s role at energy company SSE is to collaborate with communities in Yorkshire near sites suitable for a new form of flexible energy: battery storage.
At the recent Yorkshire Post Climate Change Summit in Leeds, he explained the key role Yorkshire can play in unlocking the path to net zero. Full story see https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business
The 320MW battery storage facility, which will run for up to two hours at a time, is located next to the National Grid’s existing substation.
Renewable sources of energy, such as offshore wind are leading the net zero revolution; but industry experts say we need more than turbines to decarbonise.
Alan Greenwood’s role at energy company SSE is to collaborate with communities in Yorkshire near sites suitable for a new form of flexible energy: battery storage.
At the recent Yorkshire Post Climate Change Summit in Leeds, he explained the key role Yorkshire can play in unlocking the path to net zero. Full story see https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business
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00:00I'm Heather Donald and I'm Director of Onshore Wind, Solar and Battery and we're here today
00:04at Mount Fryston to witness the start of the construction of what is the biggest battery
00:09in the UK at the moment at 320 megawatts. This is going to be capable of powering half
00:15a million homes for a two-hour period when it's completed early in 2026.
00:20Yeah, so we looked at the project right from the start. We're trying to minimise the amount
00:25of waste. It supports our ASG measures that we're very closely monitored by and it's the
00:31right thing to do for the environment. So we wanted to minimise waste to the project
00:34and the whole stabilisation process that we've been through has meant that we've had to send
00:39nothing to waste. We've actually used a special technique to re-engineer the ground, solidify
00:44it effectively and we're building on top of that. So we've imported stone but we've sent
00:48nothing to waste which is massively beneficial to us.
00:53So battery storage is a really important part of the jigsaw in the drive for Net Zero
00:58and we try and decarbonise the energy system so it's a way of storing energy when the wind
01:03isn't blowing and when the sun isn't shining and it enables us to use that. So it's a really
01:07critical part of that journey to Net Zero. The battery equipment will start arriving
01:12in early December so we've got a fair amount of work to kick off now with screw piling
01:17and foundations etc. The batteries will then start appearing in January and February. Hopefully
01:22everything will be energised towards the end of next year with the project completion
01:26in the early part of 2026. So great for me to meet the team and start to understand some
01:31of the issues that they're facing and just watch some of the progress that they're making.