Highview Power Storage, in collaboration with Viridor, has been awarded funding for a 5MW/15MWh energy storage demonstration project by the UK Government.
The funding, valued at more than £8 million, has been awarded as part of the ‘Energy Storage Technology Demonstration Competition’, run by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). It will support the design and testing of a pre-commercial demonstration LAES system alongside one of Viridor’s landfill gas generation plants in the UK.
The LAES system will be connected to the national grid and demonstrate the technology providing balancing services to the electricity system. In addition to providing energy storage, the LAES plant will convert waste heat to power using heat from the on-site landfill gas engines. The project is scheduled to be operational by mid 2015.
As Highview’s CEO, Gareth Brett, explains, “This is a great opportunity to showcase a British innovation that has the potential to make a major contribution in terms of helping balance electricity systems in the future. With our pilot plant tested and fully operational on the UK’s national grid, this new project will provide Highview with the opportunity to demonstrate the technology at commercial scale.”
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