Invinity 0.8 MWh vanadium flow battery system mounted in Scottish Water solar PV scheme

• Battery storage space is making renewables a lot more viable for Scottish Water, the business has actually said complying with the setup of Invinity Energy Systems' vanadium flow batteries.

The flow battery system can storing up to 0.8 MWh of energy, as well as lies at the drainage treament site that serves the city of Perth. It has been coupled with over 2,520 solar panels which have a consolidated result of over 1MW.

"By harnessing this innovation, we now have a much larger opportunity to set up renewables schemes that were formerly unviable because of grid restraints," Scottish Water Horizons business advancement supervisor, Donald MacBrayne, said.

Together with reducing the carbon footprint of the treatment functions by around 160 tonnes of CO2 each year, the scheme will certainly also aid to power the energy's very first fast electrical vehicle chargepoints which have been set up at the site.

Open up Energi's Dynamic Demand 2.0 electronic optimization platform is being utilized for the scheme to collaborate the production, storage and also launch of the energy created, giving a steady supply of energy throughout periods of reduced renewable generation while maintaining energy prices down.

The scheme was provided by framework specialist Absolute Solar & Wind, and also forms part of a ₤ 2 million renewables project that includes the company's biggest solitary solar energy array to date.

"It's a large advance for us and also will certainly develop an important part of just how we reduced our discharges in the coming years," MacBrayne stated.

Scottish Water has currently had a variety of solar PV installations on its sites, revealing last year an installment at its Balmore Water Treatment Works in Torrance, East Dunbartonshire that is anticipated to generate 4GWh per year.The project making use of vanadium flow batteries was revealed in 2020.

Invinity, at the same time, recently energised the UK's largest vanadium flow battery, the 5MWh flow battery system mounted as part of the Energy Superhub Oxford.