Re: 1GW (sic) Battery Energy Storage Systems

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'....

Thanks for that lead TTman. That template looks much as I expected.
There possibly is somewhere or a region with that name or maybe they mean the one in Gloucestershire or even Cheshire. Who can tell?
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.
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.
https://www.natpower.uk/project/bellmoor/
https://www.natpower.uk/project/teesside2/
It is all very slick virtual reality marketing stuff.
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Martin Brown