Scottish energy storage firm Gravitricity is to apply to Ryedale District Council with its plan for a facility at East Knapton in Ryedale on the site of the former Knapton gas generator.If completed, it could store up to four megawatt hours (4MWhs) of electricity – sufficient to power more than 9,000 homes for an hour.Sign up to our Business newsletterGravitricity is developing technologies to store renewable energy by lifting and lowering heavy weights in an underground shaft. The firm believes it can store energy more cheaply and with less environmental impact than batteries. Last summer it successfully demonstrated the technology with an above-ground demonstrator in Edinburgh.Charlie Blair, Gravitricity’s managing director.In September Gravitricity secured a £912,000 grant from the Department of Business Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to develop feasibility plans for a…
First ever gravity green energy storage system set for North Yorkshire town
