Battery Energy Storage System (Bess) Firm EKU Energy has taken over the Bess portfolio from Bluestone Energy.
Eku Energy has adopted seven planned Bess projects from renewable energy company Bluestone Energy with a combined pipeline capacity of 1GW/2GWH. These include a 98 MW/196MWH project in Leatherhead, Surrey, the 98 MW/196MWH Sturts Farm Project in Dorset and two 240 MW projects in Ninfield, East Sussex and Rochester in Kent.
The transaction is expected to be completed in the first half of this year. Bluestone Energy and Eku Energy have worked together since 2022 under a Joint Development Agreement (JDA), so that the companies can be jointly identified and planning progress for Bess developments. Eku Energy supplies the projects through construction and activities.
Eku Energy currently has three Bess projects in the UK; The 40 MW/40MWH Maldon Bess, which is operational, and the 28MW/56MWH Basildon Bess and 40 MW/55MWH Loudwater Bess projects that are currently under construction.
CEO of Eku Energy Daniel Burrows said that the acquisition of the BESS portfolio of Bluestone Energy was consistent with the company’s long-term approach and claimed that it means an obligation to have a clean energy in the UK. Burrows added: “The acquisition of the Bluestone portfolio offers EKU energy extra flexibility to determine our customers that our customers assume determination faster and this is consistent with our mission to speed up the energy transition”.
Eku works together with Habitat Energy to optimize Basildon Bess
Earlier this month, Eku Energy Global Bess Optimizer Habitat Energy selected to serve as the optimiser for his Basildon Bess project in Essex. The project will reach commercial activities in mid-2025, after which it is managed by the fully integrated, end-to-end optimization solution of Habitat Energy.
This is not the first time that Habitat Energy and Eku Energy have worked together. Habitat Energy is also appointed to optimize the 250 MW/500MWH Williamsdale Bess of Eku Energy in the ACT, Australia, which will be online in 2026.
Habitat Energy has closed various important international optimization deals in recent weeks, as covered by our sister site, News for energy storage. Habitat -Energy has recently been selected To optimize the Mannum Bess from Epic EnergyA development of 100 MW/200MWH in Australia that started the activities later this year, and was recently appointed to optimize Eni Plentitude’s 200mw/200mWh Guajillo Bess in Texas, USA.
