Wärtsilä to mount new energy storage space system at Shetland's most significant power plant

• Innovation team Wärtsilä is to provide an 8MW/6MWh energy storage system on the Shetland Islands in Scotland.

The system will be mounted at the Lerwich Power Station for Scottish as well as Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Distribution, which will certainly utilize it for stabilizing solutions as well as reserve power for the islands.

The contract improves a "long-lasting business partnership" in between Wärtsilä and SSEN claimed Bent Iversen, elderly company advancement manager at Wärtsilä Energy.

" We are really delighted to continue this cooperation by releasing our advanced energy storage space system at Lerwick Power Station, which makes us part of Shetland Islands' power system. The GridSolv Max power storage remedy will certainly sustain the power plant's spinning reserve capability as well as can give black start back-up," Iversen claimed.

Under a complete design, procurement and construction contract, Wärtsilä will supply the system consisting of the company's GridSolv Max product. This is a standard energy remedy that supplies modular storage space, consisting of batteries, a safety and also fire system and also inverters, in addition to the proprietary energy management system GEMS.

Wärtsilä will certainly offer upkeep for the software application and hardware elements with a ten year service agreement.

Lerwich is the main generator of electrical energy on the island, as well as the storage space system will certainly provide spinning get capability in addition to assist in an increase in wind generation on the island.

SSEN Distribution is purchasing Lerwich to secure power up until Shetland is attached to the GB grid, clarified Darren Hitchin, embedded generation supervisor at the power station.

" A reliable supply of electrical power is important to the local community and the North Sea oil companies running out of Shetland, which is 200 kilometres from the northern tip of Scotland. The Wärtsilä power storage system will boost the islands' safety and security of supply, while at the same time reducing our carbon footprint."

This system will be supplied by mid-summer 2021, claimed Wärtsilä, prior to coming to be totally operational in September.

The contract with SSEN Distribution complies with an agreement signed by the company with Pivot Power in 2020 for 100MW of storage space systems in the UK.