Centrica Business Solutions has secured the development rights to a 65MW, two-hour battery storage plant in Perthshire - its largest such acquisition to date.
The site in Abernethy is located near a connection for offshore wind farms and should help manage grid capacity by charging when demand for power is low, and discharging when demand is at its highest.
Once connected to the grid in 2028, the battery should be able to store enough electricity to power 130,000 homes for an hour - the equivalent to a town the size of Aberdeen. The discharge could happen up to four times a day.
