Battery enables landfill gas to balance grid
Ylem Energy has installed a 1MW battery energy storage system alongside an existing landfill-gas generator to enable the site to participate in National Grid's Balancing Mechanism.
26th June 2019 by Networks
Located at Yorwaste’s now-mothballed Harewood Whin landfill site on the outskirts of York, the 1MW (1.2MWh) battery is charged by the existing on-site generation system and allows the power stored to be readily available at short notice to meet the demands of the network as required.
The battery technology, developed by Dowell, is supplied in the UK by flexible energy generation specialist Ylem Energy under an exclusive deal. Rated at 1MW, the system can store and supply some 1.2 MWh of power – which would be the equivalent energy required to power around 2,400 average homes for one hour.*
Ian Gadsby, Ylem Energy’s managing director, said: “These new technologies are playing an increasing role in helping the UK energy sector continue its process of decentralisation and meet its ambitious targets for reducing carbon emissions – by helping integrate low and zero-carbon generation technologies such as renewables into the grid.”
“This project at Harewood Whin perfectly demonstrates this approach and we’re well underway in repeating this with further energy-efficient and sustainable flexible generation system projects. This not only allows us to provide network resilience that helps balance the system, but we’re helping reduce industrial and commercial clients’ reliance on costly peak-time energy tariffs as a wider package of measures both in front of and behind their electricity meters.”
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