A floating wind farm in northeast Scotland installed a onshore battery storage system, which is considered the first such system (
Cameron wrote).
Partners Equinor and Masdar lucicity behind Hywind venture, 15 miles north of Peter Head, have named the family-
Megawatt battery system "batwind ".
The power generated by the five turbines can collectively generate up to 30 MW of power, delivered to the onshore substation where the battery is located by cable.
The companies say the storage capacity of the battery system is equivalent to the storage capacity of about 128,000 smartphones.
Battery storage has long been considered a way to balance wind energy intermittently.