Pulse Clean Energy today (March 25) announced that it has activated a 42 MW/100MWH Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Cheshire.
The two-hour duration Hyde Bess is located in the Greater Manchester area, west of the city center. The project was funded via a credit facility of £ 175 million by Santander, CIBC, Investec and the UK’s National Wealth Fund. Equity was also supplied by the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario.
The project is the sixth Bess that Pulse Clean Energy has ratified since 2023 as part of its target to deliver 1GW installed Bess capacity in the UK. These include a 22 MW Bess that will be stimulated in November last year, as well as four batteries of a total of 100 MWh activated in July 2023 as part of a collaboration with Habitat Energy. Both projects are part of a broader plan of Pulse Clean Energy to convert diesel power generators into currant assets on Grids scale, which represent the fifth of the nine locations intended to convert in this way.
Trevor Willis, CEO of Pulse Clean Energy, said that the company was ‘proud’ to have delivered the project. He added: “At a time when the nation is struggling with rising energy costs while striving to achieve ambitious goals for renewable energy consumption, battery storage has never been more important. By managing the intermittence of renewable sources to guarantee a reliable power supply, our Hyde Bessrol plays a key rol”.
Pulse clean energy currently has a portfolio with a combined capacity of more than 1 GWh. This comprises 260 MWH Operational Bess assets, as well as 273 MWH assets under construction.
Pulse changes the technical landscape for the Bess sector
Last month the company launched an industrial-first tool with which BESS power managers can follow and certify the CO2 emissions that have been saved by BESS use. The project was founded in collaboration with the National Wealth Fund and LCP Delta and uses real -time data from Elixon, the British electricity market manager, to calculate emission data in half an hour of periods.
The tool is free and open-source, and Pulse Clean Energy encourages all BESS investors and asset owners implement the tool to help understand and verify the positive impact of BESS-ACTIVA in the UK.
