The government-owned organisation plans to invest in Energy Storage Systems - essentially giant battery packs – for service stations where the grid supply is not enough for rapid charging infrastructure.
Most of the world's grid energy storage by capacity is in the form of pumped-storage hydroelectricity, which is covered in List of pumped-storage hydroelectric power stations. This article list plants using all other forms of energy storage.
National Grid plugs TagEnergy’s 100MW battery project in at its Drax substation. Following energisation, the facility in North Yorkshire is the UK’s largest transmission connected battery energy storage system (BESS). The facility is supporting Britain’s clean energy transition, and helping to ensure secure operation of the electricity system.
The simple answer is, almost anywhere. Unlike wind or solar plants, which require large tracts of land, battery storage is a relatively compact form of energy infrastructure. Pacific Green’s Richborough Energy Park battery project, for example, occupies less than four acres for 100 MW of storage capacity.
Around 20 Energy Storage Systems will temporarily bridge this gap, storing energy in quiet periods to provide rapid high-power charging at busy times, until those motorway services can obtain increased power directly from the grid for rapid charging themselves.
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