Renewable Energy Geotechnical Consultancy Services

Geotechnical Services for Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy Battery Storage Project

Earth Environmental & Geotechnical Scotland Office has been involved in an exciting project in South Ayrshire, providing geotechnical services for a Renewable Energy Battery Storage Project.

An International EV fleet and battery storage specialist are constructing three battery storage facilities at Blackhillock, Kilmarnock South and Eccles in Scotland, which will total £750 million of investment.

At Kilmarnock Substation, South Ayrshire, Paul Finnimore and the team at Earth Environmental & Geotechnical’s Scotland Office completed a range of geotechnical services and site investigations as part of the preliminary investigations of the site development.

The sites are set to be the first commercial contracts in the world to use transmission connected batteries to provide short-circuit level and inertia.

“It’s fantastic to be involved in this innovative new project, the shift towards renewable energy means battery storage technologies are important to speeding up the replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy. We completed a comprehensive range of site investigation which included machine excavated trial pits, in-situ plate bearing and infiltration tests.”

The team also completed ground investigations using rotary cored boreholes, surveying, plus ground penetrating radar was used to locate buried services.

“ We conducted a series of assessments for the proposed battery storage site including chemical and earthworks testing, plus the cable route to the substation. It’s great to be at the first stages of this project which will improve matching supply and demand of energy”