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Six energy storage devices have been installed and commissioned by Northern Powergrid
Six energy storage devices have been installed and commissioned by Northern Powergrid as part of a trial of electrical energy storage technology. The devices have been placed on a live electricity network, across a mixture of rural and urban locations in the North East and Yorkshire, to help balance the supply and demand of electricity for thousands of residential and business properties and test the effectiveness of energy storage batteries as part of an overall smart grid solution.
Three of the devices have a capacity of 100 kWh, two are 200 kWh and the biggest has a capacity of 5 MWh, making it one of the largest currently in operation in Europe.
The trial is part of the Customer-Led Network Revolution (CLNR), a leading UK smart grid project, part funded by Ofgem’s Low Carbon Networks Fund.
The largest, 5 MWh device has been installed in Darlington and is helping to meet the energy demands of 14,000 different homes and businesses in and around the town. In comparison, one of the smaller batteries is supporting around 300 residential homes in Maltby, South Yorkshire, which has a high concentration and cluster of customers with solar PV technology.
Ian Lloyd, Network Technology Project Manager at Northern Powergrid, said: ‘These locations combined offer a representative sample of 80% of the UK’s total electricity distribution network and this is vitally important because it means that, with the learning we gain from these trials, we’ll have real-world results that show how this technology could be deployed as an effective solution across the UK.’
