EDF Renewables reveals plans for 300MW of battery storage

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Six battery storage projects with a combined rating of more than 300MW are set to be added to the grid over the next 12 months by EDF Renewables UK.

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The projects include a 57MW battery in Braintree, Essex, a 47.5MW battery in Indian Queens, Saint Austell, and a 47.5MW battery near Mannington in Dorset.

EDF Renewables recently oversaw the energisation of a 52MW battery in Sundon, Bedfordshire, which went live in July. Although MWh figures had not been provided at the time of writing, EDF Renewables claims the six installations – totalling 313MW – are enough to power around 400,000 homes for two hours. 

Rapid scale up of storage is needed to complement the expansion of renewable energy that the new government hopes can decarbonise the grid by 2030. Achieving a zero-carbon electricity system by this date will require tripling solar capacity to 50GW, quadrupling offshore wind to 55GW and doubling onshore wind to 35GW. 

National Grid ESO estimates that between 20-30GW of battery storage is required by 2030 to facilitate this expansion of intermittent renewable power. Globally, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has calculated that energy storage will need to increase sixfold in order to support COP28 pledges to triple worldwide renewable energy capacity to 11TW by 2030.

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