Envision Energy is partnering with renewable energy infrastructure company Field to develop a 50 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Blackburn, England.
Envision Energy will provide the Field Whitebirk project with the necessary hardware and equipment to install the BESS on site. The agreement is part of a long-term partnership aimed at helping Envision’s energy storage business in the UK and Europe.
Mark Walton-Hayfield, senior director for energy storage in the UK and Ireland at Envision Energy, said: “We are proud that our advanced BESS solutions have been recognized by Field for their exceptional standards of safety, reliability and technical possibilities. We are excited to bring our Tier 1 technology to Whitebirk, as we continue to work and collaborate more broadly with Field to make a significant contribution to the global energy transition.”
Ben Saward, vice president of supply chain and purchasing at Field, added: “Envision Energy’s products and expertise have helped them move quickly through a thorough, competitive tender process and we are pleased to be working with them on Field Whitebirk. When operational, the site will join our network of UK battery storage sites to balance the increasingly intermittent energy supply on the electricity grid to strengthen energy security, reduce costs for consumers and decarbonise the energy sector by 2030 .”
Visualize Energy’s BESS ambitions
Envision Energy has made some big steps into the British BESS market this year.
In May, Atlantic Green announced it had signed a £200m deal with Ameresco, which will develop a new 300MW BESS with Envision Energy. The Cellerhead BESS project will connect to National Grid’s Cellarhead substation in the West Midlands and will have a maximum energy capacity of 624 MWh.
A year earlier, Envision struck a deal with Harmony Energy Income Trust (HEIT) to supply it with 166 MWh BESS equipment for their Wormald Green and Hawthorn Pit projects.
Other major BESS companies have invested in the UK market, with final planning permission recently granted for a 400 MWh BESS near Carlisle. The 200 MW/400 MWh, 2-hour Harker Project is a joint development between Canadian Solar subsidiary Recurrent Energy and Windel Energy, with construction expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2029.
