Cambourne Energy to install Europe's first grid-scale Tesla Powerpacks
UK company, Camborne Energy Storage, is installing Europe's first grid-scale Tesla Powerpacks in a ground-mounted solar PV site. Tesla's Powerpacks were "produced specifically to operate and integrate seamlessly" within the site, which will power more than 500 homes. Cambourne has plans for 100MWh of projects and signed an exclusive agreement with one of the UK’s largest landowners over energy storage.

Camborne Energy Storage, a UK-based developer of large-scale energy storage projects, is installing the first grid scale Tesla Powerpacks in Europe. With the recent arrival of the batteries to a site in Somerset, Camborne is co-locating them with a ground mounted solar PV site.

The combined solar and battery installation has the capacity to provide power for more than 500 homes. Camborne has selected this design to demonstrate the ability to provide a balanced grid and grow its ambitions for pioneering co-located energy systems throughout the UK.

The Tesla Powerpacks, installed by EPC Poweri Services, have been produced specifically to operate and integrate seamlessly with the solar PV site, optimizing the existing assets and providing ancillary services to National Grid.

Camborne is progressing at pace with its ambitious deployment targets for energy storage in the UK with more than 100MWh of projects in planning and an exclusivity agreement over the land with one of the UK’s largest landowners, specifically for the development of energy storage.