Date: Mar 26, 2019
Norwegian utility Statkraft has partnered with flow machine specialist redT on a fully-financed solar-plus-storage offering for the UK’s thriving C&I renewables market.
The solution will offer companies in the UK savings on their energy bills of up to 20% over a 25 year power purchase agreement (PPA) through the installation of solar arrays and redT flow machines at their premises.
Statkraft is to also bring customers into its virtual power plant, which the state-owned company intends to double in capacity to 2GW before the summer, to enable them to access flexibility optimisation services.
It’s intended that the initial phase of the agreement will see the deployment of some 10MW of solar PV and 6MWh of flow machine capacity. But it’s the companies’ aim to ramp this up significantly over the next three years, with the target set of installing 100MW of solar PV and 60MWh of storage in that time.
Andy Cooper, head of UK downstream at Statkraft, said the fully-financed offering stood to enable its customers to take advantage of renewable energy.
“Statkraft is committed to being the leading partner for clients seeking to better utilise renewable energy and maximise the value of flexibility. The partnership with redT enables Statkraft and Bryt Energy to offer additional options that will benefit customers, incorporating storage, renewable energy solutions, advanced asset optimisation and trading within a VPP,” he said.
Earlier this month, Solar Media’s sister publications Solar Power Portal and Energy-Storage.newsreported on the extent of redT’s financial woes, issues which have prompted the firm to launch a strategic review of the business moving forward.
