Manchester, UK

Work is now underway at Carrington – a 50MW / 300MWh plant at Trafford Energy Park near Manchester. The facility will store enough clean, renewable energy to serve the needs of 480,000 homes, as well as providing essential grid stabilisation services. The site will use existing substation and transmission infrastructure.

Pilsworth Grid Scale Demonstrator Station

Highview Power’s grid-scale demonstration site was established at the Pilsworth Landfill facility in Bury, Greater Manchester. In operation for over two years, this renewable energy power station demonstrated our balancing service capabilities, including Short Term Operating Reserve (STOR) which supported the grid during winter peaks.

Developed in partnership with recycling and renewable energy company, Viridor the project was backed by £8 million of UK government funding.

SCOTLAND AND THE
NORTH EAST, UK

Highview Power’s next projects will be located in Scotland and the North East and each will be 200MW/2.5GWh capacity. These will be located on the national transmission network where the wind is being generated and therefore will enable these regions to unleash their untapped renewable energy potential and store excess wind power at scale.

Highview Power and Orsted - unlocking greater value from wind farms

Highview Power and Ørsted’s joint study shows that the co-location of LAES with Ørsted’s offshore wind offers a step forward in reducing wind curtailment, and helping to move to a more flexible, resilient zero carbon grid.

The project findings have been fed into the UK Government’s Long Duration Energy Storage’ consultation to demonstrate the benefits of LAES in delivering the shift to clean energy. Offshore wind will be essential for the UK’s ambition to achieve net zero by 2050. And storage systems will play a crucial role in supporting the stability of the power network and improving the efficiency of wind farms, encouraging future investment in renewable energy that will boost the UK’s energy security and cut consumer bills.

Australia

Highview Power is actively developing several renewable energy power stations in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland with development planning underway on two projects so far. The first is a nominal 90 MW, 10 hour scheme on the Katherine-Darwin network followed with a 30 MW, 12 hour facility adjacent to the Owen Springs Power station outside of Alice Springs. Both schemes blend solar power and Li-ion storage in order to provide a base load supply of renewable energy.

These initial projects would facilitate the Territory’s objective to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030. Highview Power’s proprietary Liquid Air Energy Storage technology enables the provision of renewable energy and grid stability services on a 24/7 basis.

Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) and Hiroshima Gas partnership

SHI is developing a grid-scale demonstration of LAES technology integrated with an external cold source from the adjacent LNG plant. SHI is partnering with Hiroshima Gas to deliver this project. This 5 MW, 4 hour facility is being built in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima and is due to be operational in early 2025.

Highview’s flexible modular LAES system is fast to get up and running – just 2-3years from concept to service. LAES is incredibly agile, has a small footprint, high energy density and can be located just about anywhere clearing away the geographic and safety restrictions that plague alternatives. LAES can function as a standalone unit or be co-located with other processes like it will be at the Hatsukaichi LNG Terminal.