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First co-located battery storage at river hydro schemes

Barn Energy, the developer and owner three of the largest river hydro projects to be built in the UK in the past 20 years, has deployed battery units alongside two of them – at Thrybergh (pictured), on the Rover Don near Rotherham and at Knottingley, on the River Aire near Wakefield. 

Barn Energy worked with its sister company, Eelpower Limited, to deliver the two schemes. Later this year, the two companies plan to install another battery storage unit at Barn Energy’s Kirkthorpe hydro scheme (500 kW capacity) on the River Calder, 10 miles west of Knottingley.

Built by China’s BYD and installed by Anesco, each lithium-ion battery unit has a capacity of over 1,200 kWh, and each is currently delivering on a two-year contract to deliver Firm Frequency Response (FFR) for the National Grid, says Barn Energy. The batteries will also seek to export over TRIAD days, multiplying Thrybergh’s output by five times its original capacity (260 kW) and Knottingley’s (500 kW) by 2½ times. 

The batteries will be remotely controlled using Limejump’s ‘Virtual Power Plant’ offering. When not performing FFR or TRIAD services, the batteries will be used for load shifting and for trading to maximise the revenues at each site.

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Journal title: Energy World

Subjects: Storage, Hydro power, Batteries

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