The Scottish government has given the go ahead for ScottishPower to build a 50MW battery on its Whitelee wind farm near Glasgow to be installed next year. The installation is said to be the size of half a football pitch, and reach full charge from its 215 wind turbines in under an hour. Effectively it is to sit between the wind farm and the grid, to stabilize an intermittent output and offer grid stabilization services. The battery deal is part of plans to invest £ 2 billion into clean technology projects in 2019 and was granted local approval by South Lanarkshire Council in May. US renewables specialist Recurrent Energy, part of Canadian Solar, has signed two power purchase agreements one…