BP said it plans to build its first solar farm with battery storage on a site in Tiln Farm, Retford, which will drive its plans to make the technology the norm globally.
Nick Boyle, the head of energy giant BP’s solar joint venture, said he believes battery storage technology will be widely included as part of solar farms, helping to tackle the problem of intermittent energy.
BP announced in October it was building a solar farm, its largest ever UK solar project, in Retford with construction of the 61MWp project beginning in November.
BP will be investing over £40mln into the project, which when complete will generate enough energy to power the equivalent of 14,230 UK homes.
Once complete, 50GWh of renewable energy generated by the project will be sold to Forterra, a UK building products manufacturer, annually for 15 years via a corporate power purchase agreement.