Europe's Biggest Battery Powered Up In Scotland (zenobe.com)
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- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/03/04/1348203/europes-biggest-battery-powered-up-in-scotland
- Source link: https://www.zenobe.com/news-and-events/blackhillock-battery-storage-launch/
> Europe's biggest battery storage project has [2]entered commercial operation in Scotland
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, promising to soak up surplus wind power and prevent turbines being paid to switch off.>
> Zenobe said the first phase of its project at Blackhillock, between Inverness and Aberdeen, was now live with capacity to store enough power to supply 200 megawatts of electricity for two hours. It is due to be expanded to 300 megawatts by next year, enough to supply 3.1 million homes, more than every household in Scotland.
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> The government's Clean Power 2030 action plan sets a target capacity of up to 27 gigawatts of batteries by 2030, a sixfold increase from the 4.5 gigawatts installed today. This huge expansion is seen as critical as Britain builds more renewable wind and solar power, since batteries can store surplus generation for use when the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~AmiMoJo
[2] https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/companies/article/europes-biggest-battery-storage-project-goes-live-in-scotland-6htkf283q
[3] https://www.zenobe.com/news-and-events/blackhillock-battery-storage-launch/
Megawatts is a measure of power not energy (Score:2)
It appears that the PR department doesn't employ people with any science knowledge.
Scotts don't use much power (Score:1)
300 mega Watts for 3.1 million homes is less than 100 Watts per home. I guess that no one is charging an EV at night.
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For ten minutes. Yet anoter reporter over his head in science.
And you all thought ... (Score:2)
... an electric bicycle fire would be hard to put out.
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Thank god a gasoline fire can be put out with a good strong pee.
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> Thank god a gasoline fire can be put out with a good strong pee.
Please try it and get back to us with the results.
They left this out on purpose (Score:2)
Lithium Iron Phosphate is the primary chemistry used. That has a useable life of 5-15 years. I sure hope they're putting away money yearly for replacing the cells. They can't control the temperature very well or the charge rate necessarily, within reason, since it's wind. I'm sure it's not a free for all but I bet they've got some large BMSes on there too. So I bet it's closer to the 5 year side of things.
200 Megawatts for 2 hours? (Score:2)
Is 200 Megawatts for 2 hours the same as 400 Megawatt Hours? Or is the 2 hour unit significant in some way?
Re:200 Megawatts for 2 hours? (Score:4, Interesting)
The maximum discharge rate to 200MW. It can provide that for two hours, so has 400MWh of storage.
Or maybe more, it's not clear if it is 400MWh usable or gross capacity.
Either way, it's a very big battery. Whole country UPS size.
Re: 200 Megawatts for 2 hours? (Score:3)
> Or is the 2 hour unit significant in some way?
Maybe. It could specify the maximum discharge rate.
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> Is 200 Megawatts for 2 hours the same as 400 Megawatt Hours? Or is the 2 hour unit significant in some way?
200 MW is the power. 2 hours is the duration.
200 MW times 2 hours is the capacity, 400 MW-hr.
Power, duration and capacity are all important.