Plans for a £ 62 million energy storage facility with a capacity of 100 MW are approved for development in the Industrial Zone Teesworks.
By the schedule proposed by Energy Optimization Solutions (EOS), the 100 MW/200MWH Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) will be constructed on a three-hectare plot on the long hectare section of the Teesworks site. Natpower plans a 1GW Bess in the same area of the Teesworks Freeport.
A planning application was submitted to the Redcar and Cleveland Council in December 2024. EOS first reached an agreement with Teesworks for the development in July 2024.
The EOS facility borders the site where Hygreen -Tetenide and H2 Teesside of hydrogen production facilities, both led by multinational oil and gas company BP, are planned to be built. The Net Zero Tesside project, which aims to be ‘one of the world’s first’ commercial-scale gas-fired power stations with carbon capture and storage, is also nearby.
TeesWorks Limited Chairman Chris Musgrave said that battery storage is a “key piece” in the clean energy mix at Teesworks.
EOS director Pete Walker added: “With so much development of renewable energy planned for the site, such a supporting environment and such an experienced team, it ensures the perfect location for our next battery storage facility.”
EOS already has various battery storage projects in the UK. The provider of energy storage solutions is supported by financing Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners; The two work together on a 230 MW/460MWH Bess in Newport South Wales, under their portfolio company USKMouth Energy Storage (UES). E.ON came on board in March 2024.
The USKMouth Bess Asset is the newest large -scale project Quinbrook strives and contributes to its portfolio. Perhaps the most remarkable British development for Quinbrook is the flagship 373MW Cleve Hill Solar-Plus-Storage National Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP).
In March of this year, Quinbrook closed the project financing for the project with a loan of £ 218.5 million and a VAT facility of £ 20 million, is provided by Lloyds and Natwest.
Earlier this year it acquired a second Solar NSIP, the 350 MW Mallard Pass Solar PV project that was brought by a planning by a joint venture between Windel Energy and Recurrent Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar.
