THE developer announced yesterday (18 August) that its 300MW/600MWh Thurrock Storage battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Essex is delivering energy to the grid reports Solar Power Portal.
Originally planned as a 1-hour duration project, the 2-hour BESS asset is part of Thurrock Flexible Generation, a complex that will also feature a co-located 450MW flexible generation gas-fired thermal power plant.
Project owner Statera did not reveal which applications the system will serve in its most recent release; however, the company’s webpage for the project cites the Capacity Market, wholesale power markets, frequency response and the Balancing Mechanism as services and market opportunities typically played into by utility-scale batteries.
