NEC wins deals for 19 MW of UK energy storage

Japan's NEC Corp (TYO:6701) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary NEC Energy Solutions has secured contracts for two UK energy storage projects with a combined capacity of 19 MW.

The full turnkey projects’ proprietor is Gore Street Energy Storage Fund Plc, which acquired them from developer Origami Energy. Nippon Koei (TYO:1954) will be entrusted with the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work.

The two projects, one of 9 MW and one of 10 MW, are located at the Port of Tilbury and in Brentwood, Essex, respectively. NEC’s GSS Grid Storage Solution at the deep-water port will be the largest behind-the-meter battery storage system in the UK, the company says. The 10-MW Lower Road project, in turn, will be a grid-tied system that provides front-of-the-meter grid services.

The projects have three different revenue stream contracts: services to the capacity market, participating in TRIADs and providing dynamic firm frequency response services to National Grid, the announcement says.

Construction at Port of Tilbury will start in December 2018 and at Lower Road in January 2019, with commercial operations expected to begin in mid-2019.

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