Engineers from ABB in Stone have built a ground-breaking energy storage system that will help to improve the UK’s future use of wind power.
The hi-tech plant can harness power from wind turbines and store it in high performance lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries so it can be returned into the electricity distribution network when it’s needed – not just when the wind blows.
On behalf of UK Power Networks, the electricity distribution company, ABB has constructed a new energy storage device at a site north of Hemsby on the Norfolk coast.
It is the first example of this type of energy storage system based on Li-ion batteries in the UK, and is among the first in western Europe. It uses ABB’s DynaPeaQ technology to convert energy into a form where it can be stored in a battery system.
And it all happened at ABB’s ‘electrical grid systems’ centre of excellence in Stone.
“Energy storage is now regarded as a key enabling technology for the major increase in our usage of renewable energy essential to meet the UK’s stringent targets for reducing CO2 emissions. There has been a great deal of talk about the subject, but ABB has seized the initiative by creating the country’s first practical demonstration of grid-connected Li-ion energy storage,” said Stephen Trotter, Division Head of ABB Power Systems.
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