RES has completed its first energy storage project in the UK with a 300kW/640kWh lithium-ion battery system at a solar farm in Somerset.
The Hertfordshire developer’s system was installed alongside a 1.3MW British Solar Renewables’ PV site at Butleigh near Glastonbury.
The under-construction system was ordered by DNO Western Power Distribution under a turnkey contract after RES won a tender last November.
The developer supplied the storage system, which features BYD batteries, including its proprietary Resolve battery control system.
RES will provide a full warranty wrap for the system, including for defects, capacity and performance warranties.
WPD will use the system to peak lop generation to avoid network overloads and voltage excursions, as well as harnessing reactive power from the batteries inverters to reduce voltage rise and using stored energy to support the network at times of high demand.
Image: Energy storage system at Butleigh (RES)
RES rocks Glastonbury storage
Batteries installed alongside 1.3MW British Solar Renewables project
By EBS