BMW i3 batteries deployed in energy storage facility
New battery storage scheme is to be combined with an onshore wind farm to help provide renewable energy to the National Grid
A new 22-megawatt energy storage facility has been installed at an onshore wind farm in south Wales that utilises more than 500 BMW i3 battery packs.
The facility, which is located at the Pen y Cymoedd onshore wind farm and is owned by green energy firm Vattenfall, looks to provide the National Grid with additional power during in demand-times.
Nick Entwistle, Vattenfall’s construction Project Manager, said: “Installing a battery of this scale, co-located with a wind farm, has been a fascinating electrical engineering challenge, a challenge that has made best use of Vattenfall’s expertise and ingenuity.
“We also had expert back up; we couldn’t have done it without Belectric, EDS, Quad Consult and Electric Power Solutions.”
The Pen y Cymoedd site, which features 76 turbines, has the capability to meet the equivalent electricity needs of more than 15 per cent of the households in Wales every year. It also displaces more than 300,000 tonnes of CO2 from fossil-fuelled generation in an average year.
