Earba storage

About Us

Gilkes Energy Ltd (GEL) specializes in the development of hydro power projects in the UK. Over the last 14 years, we have successfully developed and built 17 conventional hydro projects.

In 2018 we moved our focus from conventional small-scale hydro to much larger Pumped Storage Hydro ‘PSH’. This change in focus reflected the fact that the UK needs vast amounts of energy storage in order to balance the grid.

A MULTI-DISCIPLINED DEVELOPMENT TEAM

We are a multi-disciplined development team which includes a full suite of engineering, consenting, project management, commercial, financial and legal expertise ‘under one roof’. We are supported by an industry leading team of specialist technical consultants. We are straightforward to work with, deliver results and enjoy what we do.

We use a build, own, operate ‘BOO’ model and have raised over £125m of capital (both debt and equity) to do this.

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The Project

The Earba project will be the largest such scheme in the UK in terms of energy stored. The Earba Storage project is a proposed pumped storage hydro (‘PSH’) scheme with an installed capacity of up to 1,800MW.
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