Re: 1GW (sic) Battery Energy Storage Systems

On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:58:35 +0000, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

On 24/11/2024 16:44, TTman wrote:

On 24/11/2024 11:40, Martin Brown wrote:

There is a startup company in the UK called NatPower (no relation to
the real National Power PLC aka NPower) claiming to have over 25 years
of experience in BESS. They are proposing 1GW (sic) BESS in all sorts
of brown and green field UK sites. They have no track record that I
can find. Does anyone here know of any real international project(s)
that they have actually done and more importantly *delivered*?
(their own PR or its uncritical repetition in the press doesn't count)
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Their website is very slick indeed but I suspect that beauty is only
skin deep. I am interesting in evidence of substance not PR fluff.

 
So... 100MMW system in Alderley, Hampshire. My neck of the woods. No
such place that I know of, nor does Google Maps. They say' will update
in August 2024'....

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Thanks for that lead TTman. That template looks much as I expected.
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There possibly is somewhere or a region with that name or maybe they
mean the one in Gloucestershire or even Cheshire. Who can tell?
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The ones in my neck of the woods (3 of them) all 1GW are in public
consultation at the moment. It is likely to get rather interesting.
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The ones with the most detailed prospectus after first stage public
consultation are at Teesside former steelworks site (fair enough) and
South Kilvington green field site (not good). The battery modules look
way too close together in the plans for my liking - any fire would have
spread before the fire brigade even got there.
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https://www.natpower.uk/project/bellmoor/
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https://www.natpower.uk/project/teesside2/
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It is all very slick virtual reality marketing stuff.

You've got to have energy before you can store it!

About all the UK has now is coal. Its NG reserves are mostly used up.