Image: Andy Aitchison/Riding Sunbeams.
Riding Sunbeams has secured a variety of different funding from both the public purse and private investment this year to help fund its work on developing solar-powered railways.
Having the government finace – which is designated for supporting innovation – combined with private funding “is excellent”, Riding Sunbeams’ executive director Ollie Pendered told
Solar Power Portal, adding that “until we have a route to market with Network Rail, it’s really essential to have received government funding”.
Riding Sunbeams is currently working on developing the route to market for solar-powered railways, with the latest government funding to support the 3.75MW Cuckmere Community Solar Farm, a really important flagship project due to its role in proving this route to market.
Published: 18 Dec 2020, 06:00
By:
Alice Grundy
THe Lumcloon battery storage project, with the Derrycarney 110kV substation next to it. Image: Lumcloon Energy.
A 100MW battery storage facility in Co. Offaly in Ireland has this week been energised, having been developed as part of a partnership between local developer Lumcloon Energy and South Korea s Hanwha Group.
Writing on social media site LinkedIn, Irish network operator ESB Networks said it had enabled the connection and energisation of the project – situated in the Lumcloon townland - on behalf of Lumcloon Energy, describing it as a “great achievement for battery storage” in Ireland.
The project was first announced in 2018, with another 100MW project at Shannonbridge also unveiled. Together, the two battery energy storage systems (BESS) were set to involve a €150 million (£135 million) combined investment, creating 240 jobs during construction and 10 subsequent to the systems going into operation
Image: Lumcloon Energy.
A 100MW battery storage facility in Co. Offaly in Ireland has this week been energised, having been developed as part of a partnership between local developer Lumcloon Energy and South Korea s Hanwha Group.
Writing on social media site LinkedIn, Irish network operator ESB Networks said it had enabled the connection and energisation of the project – situated in the Lumcloon townland - on behalf of Lumcloon Energy, describing it as a “great achievement for battery storage” in Ireland.
The project was first announced in 2018, with another 100MW project at Shannonbridge also unveiled. Together, the two battery energy storage systems (BESS) were set to involve a €150 million (£135 million) combined investment, creating 240 jobs during construction and 10 subsequent to the systems going into operation
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