Energy storage system developer Alfen has been selected by Swedish power company Vattenfall to deploy a 5MW/20MWh system in its home country.
The system in Uppsala will be the third large-scale energy storage system that the Netherland’s-based developer has delivered to the government-owned multinational.
A storage plant featuring BMW car batteries is to be built at Swedish utility firm Vattenfall’s largest land-based wind farm, in Pen y Cymoedd, South Wales, UK.
The site’s 76 wind power turbines are now running at full capacity and it is expected they will generate about 700 GWh annually – enough to provide electricity to about 188,000 homes.
Swedish utility firm Vattenfall has signed a deal with the BMW Group for the delivery of up to 1,000 lithium-ion batteries for use in its energy storage projects.
The 33kWh batteries, each equipped with a BMW-owned battery management system, will come from the German OEM’s plant in Dingolfing.
German companies Energiequelle (EQ) and Enercon have announced their plans for a 10MW-lithium-ion battery storage park in Feldheim, Germany.
The construction of the biggest battery storage park in Germany will start in June this year at EQ’s facility in Feldheim, 30 miles south of Berlin. The facility will have a storage capacity of 5MWh. Only 1% of the produced electricity in the village is actually used. The plan is to feed the system with the energy surplus of the local 72MW wind farm and participate more efficiently in the weekly tenedering for primary control reserve.
