The
Gateway Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) is located at DP World London
Gateway on the Thames Estuary in Essex and will be able to provide up to 320MW
/ 640MWh of power to over 300,000 homes and businesses, with the potential to
expand to up to 450MW / 900MWh, providing much-needed flexibility for the UK
power system. The storage system in question is set to be one of the UK and
Europe's largest and the investment cost is expected to reach £200 million.
InterGen is half-owned by two Chinese energy
companies, China Huaneng, and Guangdong Energy, with the former having already
completed one battery system in the UK last year. The 100-megawatt storage
facility in Wiltshire is the largest yet in Britain.
For the Czech businessman Mr. Tykač, it may not
be the last battery project in the British Isles. InterGen is considering
expanding the Essex storage site to 450 megawatts in the future, while
simultaneously designing a storage facility with an even larger capacity of an
additional hundred megawatts.
Source: CIA News and E15.cz