Energy technology company Limejump has entered the first aggregated unit to go live on to National Grid’s balancing mechanism in the UK.
The so-called virtual power plant will offer access to renewables, battery storage and demand response sites to the £1bn annual market.
Limejump will connect the distributed storage and generation assets within the VPP to a communication platform developed by Siemens and provide National Grid with effectively a single asset.
“This move means that a farmer with a solar installation or a supermarket with excess energy from its cooling units will be on the same footing as a giant power station,” said Limejump chief executive Erik Nygard.
The London developer received dispensation from UK energy regulator Ofgem to enter the first aggregated unit on the BM.
National Grid published earlier this month a roadmap to widen access to the BM to all technologies and providers ahead of a new pan-European reserve market, the Trans European Replacement Reserves Exchange, due to go live in December 2019.
Image: Battery storage (Cenin Renewables)
Limejump makes UK grid leap
By EBS