Objectives and purpose
ANESCO, one of the UK’s leading developers of battery energy storage projects, commissioned Smith Brothers to work on the delivery of the 20MW Hulley Road battery energy storage site (BESS), following a string of successful joint projects.
With an initial target energisation date of January 2019, Smith Brothers was tasked with constructing a 33kV metered connection supply substation to Electricity North West Ltd (ENWL) specifications.
The project included the installation of a 1.2km metre, 33kV 3x single core XLPE cable connection to the Macclesfield Super Grid Supply Point.