Solar developer and independent power producer (IPP) AMPYR Solar Europe (ASE) has chosen GridBeyond to manage its 7.5MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in Northwold, Norfolk.
GridBeyond, a smart energy company that provides a technology platform for managing distributed and flexible energy resources, will connect the BESS to its AI-powered platform, enabling the batteries to be automatically discharged in response to instructions from the grid operator.
The company’s flagship product, managed battery as a service (MBaaS), enables remote management, energy price forecasting, trade optimisation, service stacking, trade submissions and device control.
The BESS is co-located with ASE’s Northwold solar PV development, which is the first of 400MWp of UK assets to receive financing from a £200 million framework project finance facility that the developer secured in November 2024.
GridBeyond’s asset development director Scott Berrie commented that the agreement will demonstrate the effectiveness of the AI-driven technology in managing “the complex interaction between solar generation and BESS optimisation”.
ASE, headquartered in London, signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with construction company Multiplex in 2023, which will supply the latter with 9,000MWh from the Northwold solar power station annually.
The UK energy regulator Ofgem granted an electricity generation license for Northwold on 31 January this year.
ASE launched in 2021 as result of a joint venture between the energy trading company AGP Group and NaGa Solar, at the time aiming to develop a portfolio of at least 4GW of solar projects in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany.
It now has a UK pipeline of close to 1GWp, and an aggregate European pipeline of 8GWp. Further UK solar PV projects are expected to reach commercial operation this year, ASE says.
