Battery storage for Hornsea 3

[dan_b]

This is cool. Developers are going to build a rather large grid-scale battery at the land-side infrastructure for the Hornsea 3 off-shore wind farm.

https://renews.biz/83076/orsted-wins-ap ... 3-battery/

[Mr Gus]

Kinda on topic, what about putting rows of these on rails in old redundant railway tunnels with flexible connectors or similar so they are more modular, serviceable, temperature stable, security etc.

[dan_b]

The old railway lines have all been turned into footpaths

[Mr Gus]

You don't need miles of track, but in terms of temperature control underground is more secure & temperature stable, blends rather than dominates countryside & can be planted / dual use, rather than having a big steel cage fence like some solar farms near me, (grim compared to others which simply remain low wooden field perimeter fencing.
Thinking ahead based on the next round of "no green lorry containers dominating acres of land" prospective reportage & faux D'fail headlines.
Or maybe, site the majority of a battery storage infrastructure as near to the sides of a.dual carriageway as possible, where folk are used to seeing detritus & plenty of lorry containers? ..got to be careful due to acreage being consumed, the logic being battery systems on all new (land consuming) housing estates pares back that problem from the outset.

Whats the proposed land battery footprint for hornsea I wonder?

time to really look at east anglian windfarms, ex / partially used airbases,& join up the energy dots maybe?