US-based multinational Fluence is partnering with UK Power Reserve to commission the first phase of a 120-megawatt portfolio of battery storage facilities in the UK.
UK Power Reserve said the agreement with Fluence— a Siemens and AES company— “represents the single largest energy storage portfolio transaction with one technology provider announced in the UK to date”.
Fluence will provide three 20 MW battery energy storage systems at sites in the Midlands and North West using its lithium-ion Advancion energy storage technology. All three sites are expected to be operational during the coming winter.
UK Power Reserve, founded in 2010, registered more than 1 GW of “new battery storage and flexible gas-fired generation projects” towards the end of last year designed to secure backup power generation capacity for the UK.
The company was recently acquired by Sembcorp Industries, a utilities, marine and urban development group.
Advancion was selected by AES and Mitsubishi Corporation to build India’s first utility-scale energy storage system this year— a 10 MW project to serve the electric grid operated by Tata Power.
