ABB has announced a new grid scale battery project in partnership with Ecotricity. The collaboration will help pave the way for the National Grid’s journey to Net Zero by 2050.
ABB’s grid scale battery energy storage solution (BESS), which will be installed at Ecotricity’s existing 6.9 MW wind farm in Gloucestershire, UK, in 2023, will not only provide a material addition to the company’s renewable energy offering, but will also highlight the potential of short-term fast response technologies such as BESS to add additional stability to the UK’s National Grid, a crucial hurdle as it moves towards Net Zero.The project, a 10 MW/20 MWh lithium-ion energy storage system will be co-located alongside Ecotricity’s wind farm in Alveston, Gloucestershire, which was…