Technology provider Arenko has announced a second contract with Vattenfall to optimise a 20MW/45.5MWh battery asset co-located with a wind farm in Northumberland, North East England.
This will be the second co-located battery from Vattenfall to be optimised by Arenko’s cloud-based software, Nimbus, following the 22MW/16MWh co-located battery at the Pen y Cymoedd Wind Farm in South Wales which began in May this year.
According to Arenko, Nimbus forecasts market and asset conditions, performing simulations to optimise trading decisions and asset performance.
“We are delighted to be working with Arenko again with a contract to optimise Battery@Ray,” said Kyle Philpott, project developer at Vattenfall. “Once energised later this year, Battery@Ray will play an important part in helping us achieve our goal of fossil fuel-free living within one generation.”
Founder and CEO of Arenko Group, Rupert Newland, echoed Philpott’s praise of the new contract, stating that the company is “incredibly excited for the opportunity to optimise the first two-hour duration asset in our growing route-to-market portfolio”.
The award of this contract follows a number of agreements that Arenko has announced in the past year including a new agreement with Foresight to optimise its 50MW Sandridge battery asset and contracts to optimise an additional 455MW of Gresham House battery storage.