Climate Changed
A Giant Battery Is Planned to Balance the U.K. Power Grid
- Norway’s Statkraft joins work on project with Statera Energy
- System will help balance flows onto the grid from renewables
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Statkraft AS joined with Statera Energy Ltd. to build 1 gigawatt of storage in the U.K. with a backup generator fueled by natural gas, part of an effort to profit from the nation’s need to balance its power grid.
London-based Statera will construct several storage sites over three to four years at a number of U.K. locations as well as an array of gas reciprocating engines, Norway-based Statkraft said on Tuesday. The systems will generate power at times of peak demand or when not enough energy is flowing to the grid. Statkraft will name the location for the plant in the next few weeks.