Highview Surpasses Half a Billion Pounds of Funding With Latest £130M Capital Raise for Phase One of Long Duration Energy Storage Facility at Hunterston, Ayrshire

Highview secured £130 million to fund the first phase of its Hunterston, Scotland project—a grid “stability island” that delivers inertia, short‑circuit, and voltage support. The round, which included the Scottish National Investment Bank, Centrica, Goldman Sachs, KIRKBI, and Mosaic Capital, brings total funding for Highview’s LDES program to over £500 million. The Hunterston site is the first of Highview’s planned 3.2GWh hybrid LDES facilities; it follows the Carrington, Manchester project already under construction. The company’s approach combines liquid air energy storage with lithium‑ion batteries to deliver longer, flexible power to the grid while reducing wind curtailment. The stability island is targeted to be operational by January 2028, with the full facility expected by 2030. Highview says the project will support substantial construction and supply‑chain jobs and includes a grid analytics capability to improve system planning and operations.