Pulse Clean Energy has announced that its 30MW/60MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at Town Lane, Charnock Richard, near Chorley in Lancashire, is now operational.

The site becomes Pulse Clean Energy’s eighth operational project since 2023, as battery storage continues to be positioned as a key tool for maintaining grid stability while renewable generation expands.

Located on a former scrapyard, the brownfield site has been redeveloped into an energy storage facility designed to support the national power network by absorbing surplus electricity when generation is high and exporting it back to the grid during periods of higher demand. Pulse Clean Energy says the project will provide balancing services for the network as wind and solar deployment grows across the North West.

The company claims the two-hour duration site can ‘power over 65,000 homes for an hour’, and that it will help prevent around 2,500 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year – figures it equates to removing 700 diesel cars from the road.

Alongside the energy infrastructure, Pulse Clean Energy says the development involved a significant clean-up effort. More than 500 tonnes of hazardous waste was removed during site preparation, remediating what it describes as decades of industrial contamination. The company also says bat and bird boxes have been installed on site to support local wildlife.

The Town Lane project is one of six financed through Pulse Clean Energy’s £220 million green debt deal, which was provided by a consortium of six international banks.

Vasilis Ntanovasilis, Director of Asset Delivery at Pulse Clean Energy, noted, “This project shows that investment in energy systems can revitalise neglected industrial land whilst creating the flexible capacity essential for integrating more renewables onto the grid – all while delivering lower costs and environmental benefits for local communities.

“With eight sites now operational since 2023, we’re proving that battery storage deployment can happen at the pace and scale required to meet our energy system needs.”

Trevor Wills, CEO of Pulse Clean Energy, added, “Town Lane represents exactly the kind of infrastructure Britain needs as we work to create a power system that delivers lower total costs while ensuring that our electricity grid is stable and secure.”

Pulse Clean Energy is targeting more than 2GWh of installed capacity in the UK by 2030.