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FRV and Harmony s first storage development, Holes Bay. Image: Harmony Energy.
Construction has got underway for Renewables developer Fotowatio Renewable Ventures’s (FRV) second battery storage project in the UK, together with partner Harmony Energy.
FRV, owned by Saudi Arabian industry group Abdul Latif Jameel, has deployed hundreds of megawatts of wind and solar projects around the world since 2006, when it built what was then the world’s largest solar plant, a 23MWdc project in Spain. However, the company only began its involvement in battery storage in 2019 with the announcement of its first grid-scale battery project, the 7.5MW / 15MWh Holes Bay project in England.
Colocating battery energy storage systems alongside renewables projects will be ‘critical’ to energy networks in the future, and could help level up debt financing.
Mairéad Farrell: Ceta will have a chilling effect on democracy
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has done a U-turn on his opposition to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the EU
The vote on Ceta will be the litmus test for the Eamon Ryan and the Green Party: No party that considers itself democratic, let alone concerned for the environment, could possibly support its ratification. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie
Thu, 04 Feb, 2021 - 10:35
Mairead Farrell
The year is 2017 and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is visiting Ireland. Outside the gates of Leinster House, opposition TDs gather to protest the much maligned Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ceta) between Canada and Europe.