The UK City Council’s largest-owned battery shop, the 30 MW Noodleak MillArray, is now fully operational.
Located on the South Somerset District Council (SSDC) in Taunton, an additional $2.5 million investment allowed the city council to order another five MW, making it the largest of its kind in the UK.
It uses Kiwi Power’s exclusive hardware, Fruit, which has been installed on all 22 batteries on site. These will allow batteries to provide balance to National Grid and participate in one of the UK’s 15 flexibility markets.
Thomas Jennings, head of optimization at Kiwi Power, said the forums were to make maximum sustainable progression investments in an effort to achieve “increasingly strict goals.”
“Key projects like Fideoak are important to demonstrate how investments in the battery garage and renewable energy bring an additional price and generate revenue,” he said.
“With the rapidly converting market dynamics, SSDC will depend on our joint optimization team to ensure that 12 million pounds assets at all times participate in the right market at the right time to provide the maximum return imaginable investment.”
SSDC has partnered with Opium Power, Kiwi Power, Western Power Distribution (WPD), BYD, National Grid and BSR Group, among others, for the project. The drum sets themselves were from BYD Europe BV.
David Owen, director of Opium Power, said the partnership had worked and would be the first of several “very attractive joint ventures with local authorities” for the company.
“Lately we have 110 MW more in design and we are building 3 new battery garage systems, and we intend to paint with Kiwi Power one of them.
“The UK has already agreed that we want to adapt our formula for generating electricity to zero carbon through the use of renewable energy and, in fact, the government has legislated on this. The battery garage throughout the grid is the component that is sought to stabilize the inherently volatile and non-distributable energy generated through solar and wind power. »
According to Kiwi, the SSDC site is because the controller will have to be able to shut down the batteries with a quick effect in reaction to a WPD signal. As a result, the corporate generation had to extend a solution capable of interpreting the incoming signal and sending each of the 22 sets simultaneously.
The first 25 MW at the Fideoak plant site was launched in 4 days in June, after initial plans for the allocation were announced at around 9.8 million euros in 2018. The resolution to expand the site to 30 MW was first announced in October 2019.