UK Ocean Wind Project Is World’s First With Battery Storage

Dong Energy plugs offshore wind farm into world-first battery system

Jillian Ambrose, 7 June 2017 (UK Telegraph)

"Offshore wind giant Dong Energy has become the first to plug an offshore wind farm into a battery system to store power to be used as needed…The world-first hybrid system has powered up on the Merseyside coast to store electricity generated from the first phase of Dong Energy’s 90 megawatt (MW) Burbo Bank wind farm in order to help to balance the frequency of the power grid…The new 2MW battery system helps to combat criticism that renewable power could lead to flickering light bulbs, or even blackouts by disrupting the normal power grid frequency of around 50 hertz…[Dong Energy’s UK boss argues that battery storage technology is a game changer for the booming offshore wind market…[A new report] found that that the UK’s offshore wind capacity could expand to almost five times its current level by the end of the next decade…” click here for more

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