The UK arm of EDF Renewables yesterday (20 August) announced that it will bring over 300MW of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects online over the next 12 months in the country.
A huge buildout of transmission infrastructure is needed for decarbonisation, and transmission-connected batteries have a big role to play, writes EDF Renewables UK’s Matthew Boulton.
EDF Renewables UK has entered into an optimisation agreement with investors DIF and ib vogt to optimise a co-located solar and storage project in the UK.
In a trio of UK battery storage announcements, EDF Renewables has commissioned a 50MW battery energy storage system (BESS), while TagEnergy and Exagen have progressed two projects totalling another 175MW.