The document summarizes a project called Large Scale Storage for Network Services (LSSNS) that demonstrated the capability for a 100MW grid-connected battery facility in Europe. The project was a collaboration between AES, a global power company, and Queen's University Belfast (QUB). It received funding from Innovate UK/Energy Catalyst to install and test a 10MW/5MWh battery array in the UK transmission system, which was completed in December 2015. The goals were to provide enhanced system services to support increasing renewable energy targets and stability challenges on the grid.

1. Large Scale Storage for
Network Services
An Innovate UK supported
energy infrastructure
collaborative project

2. The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the system for assessing the quality of
research in UK higher education institutions:
• Queen’s is joint 8th university in the UK based on research intensity
• Over 75 per cent of research activity at Queen’s was judged to be internationally
excellent or world-leading
• Queen’s has out-performed the sector on research impact, with almost 60 per cent of
areas achieving 100 per cent of their return ranked at 3* or 4*
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Ranks in the top ten in the UK
• 89 per cent of our research activity was judged to be internationally excellent or world-
leading
QUEENS UNIVERSITY is in the top 1% of universities globally

3. AES is a global, Fortune 200 power company that operates over 35GW of generation
and serves over 10 million customers around the world
• It has a presence is 18 countries and has been in the UK for over 22 years. AES is
also the global leader in new energy storage solutions, independently ranked by both
Navigant Research and Barclays as the #1 energy storage integrator in the world
• Owns and operated both Kilroot and Ballylumford power stations
• AES operates the world’s largest fleet of commercial energy storage arrays, and will
be more than doubling this operational fleet by the end of 2016

4. LSSNS will demonstrate capability that could underpin a
prospective 100MW facility - Europe’s largest grid
connected battery

5. What makes a good project?

9. Application form
Application details
Summary of proposed project
Public description of the project
Gateway Question Scope
Question 1 Need or challenge
Question 2 Approach and innovation
Question 3 Team and resources
Question 4 Market awareness
Question 5 Outcomes and route to market
Question 6 Wider impacts
Question 7 Project management
Question 8 Risks
Question 9 Additionality
Question 10 Costs and value for money
Other funding from public sector bodies
Finance summary table
Still very important, This is where
good projects can lose!

10. Large Scale Storage for Network Services
(LSSNS)
An Innovate UK/Energy Catalyst project

11. Funding
• The Energy Catalyst was established by DECC, Innovate UK
and EPSRC to address the three dimensions of the energy
trilemma
• Reducing Emissions
• Improving Security of Supply
• Reducing energy cost
• Now coming to the end of Round 4
• Early, Mid and Late Stage awards

12. The Challenge
• “It is isn’t always windy or sunny when you want it to be”
• 2020 target for 40% renewable energy creates significant system stability
challenges
• Enhanced System Services are necessary to achieve both governments’
targets for renewables

13. The Innovation – Advancion®

14. The Project
• AES and QUB engaged at promotion event in June 2014
• Decision to apply for late stage award
• Must be collaborative and business led
• 25% funding for large companies, 100% academia
• £4.3m, 30 month project.
• To deliver and characterise 10MW/5MWh transmission system connected
battery
• Awarded January 2015, with £736k of grant support
• AES to install and operate resource - operational December 2015
• QUB to perform monitoring and modelling activity
• Provide independent assessment

15. LSSNS- Impact
10MW/5MWh array Operational
December 2015
Officially launched February 2016
Largest battery array in UK and Ireland

16. LSSNS- Impact

17. Reflections
• Excellent “scope” match from conception
• Clear VALUE proposition and route to market
• New to market INNOVATION in system deployment
• AES led project but proposal was co-developed with QUB
• Small TEAM was augmented with participation of additional
stakeholders on the Project Steering Group
• Funding a supporting but not decisive factor for AES
• Funding enabled
• Collaboration with QUB for independent assessment
• Engagement with stakeholders
• Acceleration of deployment

18. Mr Conor Quinn,
Business Alliance Manager, QUB
T: 07527 397 492
E: c.quinn@qub.ac.uk