Greenlight advises on 20th energy storage system project

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During 2016 Greenlight provided ecology, landscape and arboricultural advice on 20 energy storage system projects in locations throughout the UK.

Energy storage systems

Energy storage systems are designed to provide real-time grid stabilisation to the local area, allowing excess electricity generated from a variety of renewable and conventional sources to be stored in the batteries during times of low-demand.  This stored capacity can then be fed back into the grid during times of peak demand, which can coincide with times of low generation (early mornings and evenings).

Energy storage can help to maintain reliable energy supplies by using stored electricity to compensate for lows in output from intermittent renewables such as wind or solar, or in the event that more traditional power generators have failure events.  The greater predictability of energy that results from energy storage being integrated with renewable generation plants enables more renewable capacity to be allowed onto the UK Grid, reducing dependency on fossil fuels, thereby reducing UK carbon dioxide emissions.

Greenlight have advised on projects in Kent, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Flintshire, totalling 200MWp capacity of energy storage.

Nathan Duszynski

Written by: Nathan Duszynski

Principal Ecologist

Nathan is a University of Reading postgraduate with a M.Sc in Species Identification and Surveying, and an Aberystwyth University graduate with a B.Sc Honors Degree in Zoology. Having started out as an Assistant Ecologist, he has progressed to Principal Ecologist and conducted various protected species surveys for great crested newts, reptiles, barn owls, hazel dormice, badgers and bats. Nathan currently holds a Natural England level 1 great crested newt and level 2 bat license and is working toward his level 3 and 4 bat and level 1 hazel dormouse license.

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