About the Project
The proposed Fairgreen Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) 1km South Benfleet, Essex. The site is located on a parcel of land at the centre of an intersection created by junctions between the A130, A127 and A1245, called the Fairglen Interchange.
We are liaising with Basildon Council and are undertaking a number of technical and environmental surveys to ensure that any potential impact from the development is appropriately assessed and mitigated. These detailed studies are due to be completed soon ahead of preparing a planning application for submission later this year.
We are keen to engage with the local community and as part of our pre-application consultation, we will be holding a public exhibition to share more information about the project and to enable the community to provide us with feedback.
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The way in which we use, and generate, electricity is changing. Our electricity system is in a transitionary period to manage the increasingly complex supply and demand needs of the 21st Century, and battery energy storage systems provide an important role in this.
Battery energy storage technology supports the variable generation of renewable energy technologies by playing an important balancing and grid stability role. Battery energy storage helps support National Grid by storing energy at times when generation exceeds demand and releasing electricity back to the national grid network when demand exceeds generation.
Increasing energy storage installed capacity will be vital to support England’s net-zero emissions target and help to deliver a reliable, resilient, decarbonised electricity system for the future. Battery energy storage is considered the fastest technology for responding to a sudden spike in demand or an abrupt loss of supply.
Battery energy storage can also provide grid stability (frequency of the grid) services on a second-by-second basis as well as providing additional network capacity, particularly at times of network stress.
RES has been working in the battery energy storage market for a decade and design safe storage projects using proven Lithium iron phosphate technology. RES has developed over 830MW of energy storage projects across the UK and Ireland and currently manage over 600MW of operational storage projects with 24/7/365 monitoring provided from our control centre in Glasgow.
