CREDIT operates a large flow-battery electricity storage system. This is coupled to the campus Vestas V52 wind turbine. We believe this to be the first installation of its kind in Europe, i.e. a flow-battery with a large-scale stand-alone wind turbine. The battery was installed primarily as a research platform.
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CREDIT’s ZBB flow-battery is used to investigate how best to use electricity storage in conjunction with an on-site wind turbine. When should battery power be used in place of grid power, for example? This work is ongoing.
Electricity storage research at CREDIT is led by Raymond Byrne.
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Complementing our flow-battery research, a SCADA system is under development. The system will extract and display data from the wind turbine’s control system and the power meters in the campus electrical compound.
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