This technique has been upgraded with the addition of NI Water’s first battery power storage system, which is now switched on.
This battery system is the primary of its sort for NI Water.
Final yr, NI Water introduced the completion of a complete £5 million funding to improve Ballykelly WwTW, offering a brand new wastewater therapy technique, utilizing reed beds as a part of the method in therapy, gives a pure, long-term and secure resolution.
The Ballykelly plant is now ‘main the way in which’ on this sustainable wastewater therapy resolution, maximizing using renewables as a part of an built-in resolution.
This new battery power storage system will considerably enhance the plant’s effectivity by elevated use of photo voltaic power, NI Water stated.
Mark Brownlee NI Water Senior Capital Undertaking Supervisor stated: “The intention of the brand new battery system is to allow the plant to function utilizing 100% regionally generated solar energy all year long as a lot as attainable.”