UK energy company Harmony Energy said it completed a 98MW/196MWh energy storage system near Hull, England. It said construction of the Pillswood project, which it claimed is Europe’s biggest, has been managed by US car manufacturer Tesla.
The project, which employs a Tesla 2-hour Megapack system with lithium iron phosphate batteries, was originally intended to become operational over two phases in December 2022 and March 2023. The timetable accelerated to enable both phases to energise this month, it said.
The system will be operated through Autobidder, Tesla’s algorithmic trading platform. The site is next to National Grid’s Creyke Beck substation, the same connection point proposed for phases A and B of the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Dogger Bank. The first phase is set to go live in summer 2023.
Harmony said the platform has had a strong track record over the past two years in managing the Holes Bay and Contego projects – existing battery storage projects also developed by Harmony Energy in conjunction with FRV.
Peter Kavanagh, Harmony Energy Director, said: “The completion and energisation of the Pillswood scheme, the largest of its kind in Europe by energy capacity, is a significant milestone for Harmony Energy Income Trust, being the first of six similar projects the trust intends to deliver in the coming year.
It is the third, and largest, battery energy storage project it has developed and delivered through construction. BEST reported last year how the UK was set to build its largest lithium energy storage system using a Tesla Megapack. Harmony was also involved in that.