Ylem Energy has installed what it describes as the UK’s first 1MW battery energy storage system at a landfill-gas generator near York.
Battery technology has been installed at Yorwaste’s disused Harewood Whin landfill site
The battery technology is in place at Yorwaste’s Harewood Whin landfill site, which stopped receiving waste in February this year. Ylem’s storage system will allow the site to participate in the National Grid’s balancing mechanism, which ensures the consistent supply and demand of electricity in the UK.
The battery will be charged by the existing on-site generation system, which allows the power to be stored so it can be available at short notice when the network requires it. The 1MW battery holds the equivalent energy to power 2,400 homes for one hour.
New technology
The technology used in the battery has been developed by Dowell, a global provider which works with Ylem in the UK under an exclusive contract.
Ian Gadsby, Ylem Energy’s managing director, said that new technologies like those at Harewood Whin are playing a growing role in helping the UK energy sector decentralise and meet its targets for carbon emission reduction through allowing renewables into the grid.
He added: “This project at Harewood Whin perfectly demonstrates this approach and we’re well underway in repeating this with further energy-efficient and sustainable flexible generation system projects.
Batteries at Harewood Whin
“This not only allows us to provide network resilience that helps balance the system, but we’re helping reduce industrial and commercial clients’ reliance on costly peak-time energy tariffs as a wider package of measures both in front of and behind their electricity meters.”
Ylem Energy report that it has chosen an “innovative” aggregation specialist and virtual power platform to optimise the energy ouput across different applications, including power trading markets and ancillary services like the National Grid’s Frequency Response programme.
The Harewood Whin site is no longer being used as non-recyclable waste from York and North Yorkshire has been diverted to the mechanical treatment, anaerobic digestion and Energy from Waste (EfW) facilities at Allerton Waste Recovery Park (AWRP) near Knaresborough.
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