Battery Energy Storage System (Bess) developer Tagenergy has announced the energy of his latest Bess project, a 49.9 MW/99.8MWH Bess in the east of Scotland.
The Pitkevy Bess is located near FIFE and is the sixth project that the developer has stimulated since he entered the British Bess market in 2021. Tagennergy has taken over the Pitkevy Bess project in October 2022 and fully possesses the facility; The developer reached financial closure of the Pitkevy BESS project in February last year, after he had obtained a non-recourse green loan package of up to £ 70 million from Santander UK, Rabobank and Triple Point.
For this Bess project, the battery units were supplied by Tesla, which supplied 27 megapack 2 XL battery systems, where flexitricity served as the route to market and battery optimizer and reserve as an asset manager. According to the developer, the Pitkevy facility is the first Split contract project from Tagennerty; RJ MCLEOD completed site works and installation of battery container for development.
In a message in which the energy is announced on LinkedIn, the company describes the energy as “another important step in bringing more renewable power to more people, and more stability and flexibility for the British grid, while continuing our mission to accelerate the energy transition”.
Tagennergy has a connected operational portfolio of 320 MW in the UK and also has assets in Spain, Australia, France and Portugal. The company saw two important British energizations take place last year; One is the 49 MW/98MWH Jamesfield project, a self -contained development of BES’s developed as a joint venture between Tagennergy and Harmony Energy and near Abernethy, Scotland.
This development also uses Tesla-Lithium ion batteries, using the 2-hour Tesla Megapack batteries and Tesla’s Autobidder AI software.
Later in 2024 the company was ratified, which claimed the largest transmission-bound curriculum development of the UK, the 100 MW/200mWh Lakeside project near Drax, in North Yorkshire. Tesla Megapack 2 XL Lithium ion batteries were also used for this development, which was successfully ratified in October 2024, after he started construction in August 2023.
Tagennergy bought a 100% interest in the Lakeside project of RES in December 2021, in a deal of £ 65 million (US $ 85 million); Habitat Energy serves as the optimiser for the Lakeside project. In November 2024, Grid operator National Grid announced that it had successfully upgraded the nearby DRAX substation to meet the connection of the Lakeside Bess.
