British wind power storage system to store surplus power

Scottish Power, a Scottish power company, is planning to build a massive power storage system to store the power generated by 214 wind turbines. It uses a 50MW lithium-ion battery with a total capacity and stores the power generated when the wind is strong and supplies the collected power when there is no wind.

This power storage system provides the ability to control the output in seconds and smooth the power supply due to wind changes. It is predicted that it will be one step closer to realizing carbon-free as the UK’s largest energy storage project.

The power storage system begins at Whitelee Wind Farm, the UK’s largest wind power plant, and is expected to start automatically by the end of 2020. Scottish Power plans to build similar power storage systems in sequence at at least six power plants that use other reusable energy.

Scottish Power sold four gas power plants in the UK a few months ago and unified them with wind power. There are still some cases of fusion of electricity from coal-fired power, but it can be said that the power storage system installation project is an important step in order to cover all the necessary electricity with recycled energy.

Speaking of large-scale power storage systems, Tesla carried out a pilot in Hawaii and California in 2017. Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg recently announced a $500 million investment to destroy coal-fired power in the United States. In the future, the flow of power storage system installations worldwide is expected to accelerate. Related information can be found here .