Vattenfall cuts ribbon at Dutch wind-solar-battery power complex

• Swedish utility Vattenfall AB on Tuesday stated that it has actually inaugurated the Energypark Haringvliet, its hybrid nuclear power plant facility that incorporates wind turbines, photovoltaic panels and also batteries in a single site in the Netherlands.

The power mega-park is situated some 20 kilometres (12.4 miles) southern of Rotterdam where Vattenfall set up 6 turbines amounting to 22 MW, 115,000 photovoltaic panels for 38 MW as well as a 12-MW storage system utilizing 288 BMW batteries crammed in 12 sea containers.

All 3 technologies share the very same grid link, the utility stated.

Vattenfall anticipates to obtain a manufacturing result of 140 GWh of electricity per year out of Haringvliet, which would make the energy park capable of meeting consumption needs of 40,000 Dutch homes.