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.
ReJoule plans to use second-life lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles to assemble modular battery energy storage systems (BESS) for behind-the-meter grid installations.
A battery storage project developed by TagEnergy is now connected and energised on the electricity transmission network, following work by National Grid to plug the facility into its 132kV Drax substation in North Yorkshire.
This project plans to install a 3.3 MW behind-the-meter, non-lithium-ion battery energy storage system that would provide power for at least 10 hours to Valley Children’s Hospital, a pediatric hospital that serves Justice40 communities around Madera, California.
Smartville, Inc. plans to help solve this issue by demonstrating the viability of repurposed lithium-ion electric EV batteries in LDES systems across a range of use cases, environments, and sizes—from smaller scale (50kW x 10 hour) to larger scale (200kW x 10 hour).
Owned and operated by TagEnergy – with Tesla, Habitat Energy and RES as project partners – the newly-connected battery will help exploit the clean electricity potential of renewable projects in the region, storing and releasing green energy to power homes and businesses and also helping to relieve any system constraints.