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# Energy Hubs: Trackside Batteries

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/energy-hubs-trackside-batteries-ocds-h6vhtk-0459b0). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED: "Energy Hubs: Trackside Batteries". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: £1. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/network-rail-infrastructure-limited-coh-02904587)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £1 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting, Electricity distribution and related services, Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy, Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy, Solar energy
- **Delivery Location:** UKM
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0459b0`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/energy-hubs-trackside-batteries-ocds-h6vhtk-0459b0#tl-md)

## Description
Network Rail is seeking a partner to design, develop, construct and operate over their lifetime a portfolio of multi MW scale battery systems to support rail traction power and is publishing this PIN with the intention of holding a supplier engagement briefing.
Network Rail purchases 3.7TWh of electricity to provide traction power for passenger and freight trains using over 105 connections to the transmission and distribution electricity networks. Future electrification and battery trains will significantly increase traction power and connection points. 
Traction power loads have high peaks as well as periods of low consumption. Trackside battery systems can manage consumption for the benefit of the rail and power system operators. Trackside batteries can be located near current and future grid connection points or at many more locations close to an electrified rail line.
Network Rail is working with Scottish Power Energy Networks, GE, Ricardo, Leeds University and NG-ESO to demonstrate a MW scale trackside battery at a site in Scotland.
Part of the demonstration project is to develop the path for wider commercial implementation of larger trackside battery systems at a number of locations.
Network Rail is seeking a partner to design, develop, construct and operate a portfolio under a long-term services estimated at £150 to £200million.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 09300000, 09330000, 31000000, 65300000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** Network Rail intends to hold an engagement briefing for this procurement event via Microsoft Teams.
The call will take place on  Wednesday 12th June 2024 at 10am and will last up to 60mins .
Interested parties are invited to confirm attendance via th...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F015402-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-05-15T09:40:36.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-26T10:03:35.839Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0459b0