{"id":434,"date":"2025-10-14T01:30:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T01:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/?p=434"},"modified":"2025-10-14T01:30:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T01:30:43","slug":"natpower-plots-12-5gw-uk-battery-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/natpower-plots-12-5gw-uk-battery-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"NatPower plots 12.5GW UK battery drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-435\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-17.png 770w, https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-17-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-17-768x469.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NatPower UK plans to invest more than \u00a310bn into delivering a large-scale portfolio of battery energy storage and grid projects across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company said it is developing 13 battery assets totalling 12.5GW, 10 of which are under assessment for regulator Ofgem\u2019s Long Duration Energy Storage Cap &amp; Floor Window 1 process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Projects include the 1GW Teesside GigaPark at Sembcorp\u2019s Wilton International site&nbsp;<em>(concept image pictured)<\/em>, which NatPower said will be the UK\u2019s largest and most advanced battery storage facility designed to support grid balancing and port electrification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other schemes are located at \u201cstrategic hubs\u201d in Yorkshire, Wales, the Midlands, and the south east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company will also invest in new 400kV substations and transmission infrastructure to resolve grid bottlenecks and reduce the financial and resource demands on the network, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NatPower UK chief executive Stefano Sommadossi said: \u201cWith 12.5GW and 100GWh of battery storage in development, NatPower UK is delivering the infrastructure Britain needs to decarbonise at pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur storage fleet is future proofed as, contrary to the vast majority of current developments, it allows long duration storage and full augmentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t just cut carbon, it reduces energy costs, eliminates inflation, strengthens the grid and ensures consumers and communities benefit from the clean energy transition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NatPower UK plans to invest more than \u00a310bn into delivering a large-scale portfolio of battery&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.esplaza.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}