UK head office developer Renewable Energy Systems (RES) has concluded a contract to provide activities and maintenance services (R&M) at the UK’s Cleve Hill Solar Project.
For the next three years, RES O&M will offer services, including optimizing asset performance, efficiency and availability. The project is the largest solar facility of the UK, After reaching commercial operation in July this yearAnd there is currently work to add a 150 MW Co-location Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) to the project, so Cleve Hill would make the largest Zonneplus-Plus storage project in the country.
“Cleve Hill shows what is feasible when the ambition is matched with delivery,” said CEO of Services at Res Juan Gutiérrez. “To build on at the moment, we need continuous progress with the permit, net access and consistent policy support in all markets. With continuous support and momentum, projects of this scale will be standard practice in the UK’s Energy Future.”
The successful commissioning of a project of this size and combining these technologies is an important milestone for the US. The Cleve Hill project was designated as a National Important Infrastructure Project (NSIP), and attendees on Solar Media’s Clean Power 2030 Summits, held in July, expressed the confidence that that The successful launch of operations with a project of this size could determine a precedent For future large-scale solar implementations in the UK.
Indeed, Rosalind Smith-Maxwell, director of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, who financed the project, called the delivery of the first solar NSIP of the UK de “Experience of your life”.
In the meantime, RES has promoted a number of projects of smaller scales in the solar sector in the field of Nuts scale at the UK and the Ireland. In July, The company was given permission for a 29.9 MW Zonneboerderij in IrelandAnd Plans submitted for a 49.9 MW Zonne-Plus storage project in Hertfordshire In January.
