Creyke Beck Substation is an extra high voltage substation operating at 400 kV / 275 kV. It connects East Yorkshire to the UK National Grid.
The National Grid operates the substation. It is connected to Hedon and Saltend North substations via 275 kV lines and Thornton and Keadby via 400 kV lines.
What does the Creyke Beck Substation do?
The substation connects the offshore wind farms developed off the North Sea’s east coast: Dogger Bank A and Dogger Bank B. Both offshore wind farms have installed capacities of 1.2 GW each.
Where is the Creyke Beck Substation located?
Creyke Beck substation is located in Cottingham, south of A1079 and east of A164.
How much voltage passes through the Creyke Beck substation?
As part of The National Grid, it connects to other substations via 400 kV and 275 kV transmission lines.
Does Creyke Beck Substation use Battery storage systems?
In 2019, Harmony Energy secured planning consent from the East Riding of Yorkshire council to install 49.5 MW of battery storage in a field adjacent to the Creyke Beck substation. Tesla provided the batteries.
The plan has since expanded to 100 MW, which is set to become one of Europe’s most significant battery storage projects. It will be built in a 5-acre lot with a 40-year lease from Keyland developments near the substation.
The company will use Tesla battery storage systems to store up to 200 megawatt-hours of electricity from the Dogger Bank Wind Farms.
Is the Creyke Beck Substation connected to Dogger Bank Wind Farms?
Dogger Bank Wind Farm will connect the substation via export cables from an offshore converter station to convert the current to DC from AC.
The offshore wind project cables will land on Yorkshire’s coast north of Ulrome. The export cables will go through ducts for 30 km to a converter station south of Beverley near A1079. The converter station will convert the current back to AC from DC. HVDC cables from Hitachi will deliver the electricity from the offshore converter station to the onshore converter station.
The substation will increase the voltage to 400 kV for transport in The National Grid.
Battery storage systems adjacent to the existing Creyke Beck Substation will also store the renewable energy from other wind farms.
Other developments
More investment is made in the substation to connect it to West Yorkshire via an overhead line. The Creyke Beck-Thornton overhead line is set to become operational in 2023.