£1M energy storage demonstrator for leith Scotland

dinburgh energy storage start-up Gravitricity has signed a land rental agreement with Forth Ports to build their first demonstrator project on land within the Port of Leith in Edinburgh. Work will begin on the£1 million project in October, on an industrial site at the Port of Leith with plans to be up and running by late December 2020.

Gravitricity’s energy battery works by raising multiple heavy weights – totaling up to 12,000 tonnes – in a deep shaft and releasing them when energy is required. They plan to roll out their technology in disused mine shafts worldwide.

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