Masdar and Aquinor are launching the world’s first energy storage facility linked to a floating station

Media In, Abu Dhabi, June 27, 2018 and WAM
The Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) and the Norwegian state-owned Akinor (Statoil) have completed the installation of a new battery system to store the electric power generated by Haywand Scotland, the world’s first commercial offshore wind power station. The testing of this system will soon begin.
The project is the first in the world to link a marine wind power station to an energy storage system and aims to test and evaluate the potential of new advanced storage technologies as part of an effort to enhance the capacity of renewable power plants to supply electricity to the main grid, technically And commercial.
The Batewind battery system has been installed in a facility on the beach adjacent to the floating station and is capable of storing 1.2 megawatts of power, equivalent to the storage capacity of more than 1.3 million iPhones. This project aims at reducing energy output disparities depending on available sources Renewable energy, thereby enhancing the commercial value of electricity generated by the “Haywind Scotland” plant.
Following the successful implementation of the Batewind project, Masdar and Aquinor will explore ways to leverage this system to improve operational processes and reduce costs in other wind power stations, opening up new business opportunities within the wind power sector Growing world.