Fabrication work on Gravitricity’s £1m 250kW energy storage demonstrator has completed with the device now ready for assembly.
Fife-based steel fabricator AJS Production has completed work on the demonstrator and the components will shortly be assembled on site in Leith port, Edinburgh, ahead of trials in early 2021.
AJS was contracted to deliver the base frame and the weight baskets for the gravity-based system.
The 250kW demonstrator’s lattice tower has been fabricated by ESL engineers in Hull.
The system’s custom-built winches and control modules have been made by international winch specialist Huisman at its factory in the Czech Republic and are currently being shipped to Leith.