Hornsea offshore to have a battery pack

[dan_b]

This is interesting and makes lots of sense. The Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm will have a 600MWh battery system attached to it at its converter station on shore. That's a lot of batteries!

https://electrek.co/2024/06/12/orsted-t ... wind-farm/

[nowty]

I wonder if Dogger bank is going to have an even larger battery as its going to be an even larger wind farm to Hornsea 3.

Hornsea 3 - 2.9GW

Dogger bank - 4.8GW

[dan_b]

I would imagine it will the way things are going with grid-scale BESS it makes total sense.

[Mart]

Silly waffle (as usual), but I recall the RE industry talking about storage about 10yrs ago, and saying how it will make an ideal partner. They would just wait till the technology and prices made it economical, and then retro-fit. A positive point they were making for RE farms, such as wind and PV, was that there weren't any big cost negatives of adding it later, and that sites would naturally tend to have the space available too.

So be it new RE, or existing RE, we should see a rapid growth in BESS now, as the economic scales are tipping in favour.

I love it when a plan comes together.

[Ken]

I suspect in the background batts allow the wind farm to quote for a greater supply and reduce curtailment.

Wind that would have and maybe still is? curtailed and therefore at zero cost can be fed into the grid at max price.

[John_S]

I suspect in the background batts allow the wind farm to quote for a greater supply and reduce curtailment.

Wind that would have and maybe still is? curtailed and therefore at zero cost can be fed into the grid at max price.

Agreed, but it also assumes that the curtailment is not due to the link from the wind farm to the grid being at capacity. It may well have other farms connected to it too.