Energy Optimization Solutions (EOS), a developer backed by Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, has submitted plans to build a 100MW battery energy storage system (BESS) at the Teesworks development on Teesside.
If Redcar & Cleveland Council grants planning permission for the facility, construction is expected to take approximately twelve months. The BESS project is being funded with £62 million in funding, which will be built on a three-acre plot on the south-west corner of the 4,500-acre Teesworks site.
EOS first reached agreement with Teesworks for development in July this year. At that time, Solar energy portal received confirmation from Peter Walker, director of EOS, that the £62 million facility will be a 100 MW system with an energy storage capacity of 200 MWh.
Teesworks will also host a NatPower proposed 1GW BESS, expected to cost around £1 billion to build.
The EOS facility is adjacent to where the HyGreen Teesside and H2 Teesside hydrogen production facilities, both run by multinational oil and gas company BP, will be built. The Net Zero Teesside project, which aims to become “one of the first” commercial-scale gas-fired power stations with carbon capture and storage in the world, is also nearby.
Teesworks chairman Chris Musgrave called battery energy storage “another key component in the clean energy mix at Teesworks”.
EOS’ Walker said: “With so much renewable energy development planned for the site, such a supportive environment and such an experienced team leading the charge, this is the ideal location for our next battery storage facility.”
EOS already has several battery storage projects underway in Great Britain. The energy storage solutions provider is backed by funding from Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners; the two are working together on a 230MW/460MWh BESS in Newport South Wales, under their portfolio company Uskmouth Energy Storage (UES). E.ON came on board in March 2024.
Under the terms of the agreement, E.ON will acquire 50% of the project capacity and jointly invest in its construction. The 2-hour facility is expected to be operational in the first quarter of 2025, with construction starting in November 2023.
The Uskmouth BESS property is the latest large-scale project that Quinbrook is pursuing and adding to its portfolio. Perhaps the most notable UK development for Quinbrook is the flagship 373MW Cleve Hill solar-plus-storage nationally significant infrastructure project (NSIP).
