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Published: 4 Mar 2021, 11:23
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Pivot Power s Kemsley battery storage site was one of 17 successful assets to clear in the T-1 Capacity Market auction. Image: EDF/Pivot Power.
The Capacity Market T-1 auction cleared at a record high price in the UK this week, with 17 batteries winning spots.
This was a sizeable jump from last year, when just two assets managed to secure spots, as the role of renewables and storage continues to grow in the country.
A total kDe-Rated Capacity of 2252.116MW was procured by National Grid ESO, just shy of the target announced by the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy of 2.4GW. This was significantly higher than the initial target set by the government department of 0.4GW in July 2020, in an effort to manage a “range of non-delivery uncertainties”.
5 February 2021 12:08 GMT Updated 10 February 2021 12:49 GMT
The track running through the quiet, typically English countryside between London and the Sussex coast on first view has little in common with India’s sprawling, busy rail network, but Ivan Stone and his colleagues at Riding Sunbeams hope the former can act as test-bed for technology that could help transform the Indian railways.
Stone is CEO at Riding Sunbeams, a company that unites the worlds of rail technology and clean energy development with a single purpose – to directly provide traction power to sections of the railways from private-wire renewables, initially solar PV but later quite possibly wind too.
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.
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