US-based NEC Energy Solutions (
www.neces.com) has won turn-key contracts for two UK energy storage projects totalling 19MW.
One 9MW project is located at the port of Tilbury, while the second is the 10MW Lower Road facility in Brentwood, Essex.
The Tilbury project will use a metering scheme (installed by Nippon Koei) to enable the battery system to reduce the port’s peak demand while integrating with existing renewable generation on site.
The Lower Road project will provide ‘front of the meter’ grid services, NEC said.
Construction has started at Tilbury and will begin at Lower Road in January, with commercial operations scheduled to start in mid-2019.
Both projects were developed by Origami Energy and have since been acquired by Gore Street Energy Storage Fund.