BMW Group is to supply up to 1000 lithium-ion batteries to Vattenfall this year for use in energy storage at renewables projects.
The batteries, which will be a made at the German car manufacturer’s plant in Dingolfing, each have a capacity of 33 kilowatt hours and are equipped with a BMW-owned battery management system.
The first energy storage scheme using the batteries is being built at the 122MW onshore Princess Alexia wind farm near Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Vattenfall said.
The project will have a capacity of 3.2MW and be Vattenfall’s first large storage project in the Netherlands.
Another 22MW storage facility – pending on a final investment decision – will be built at the 230MW Pen y Cymoedd wind farm in South Wales.
Vattenfall will also team up with the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and Nordex to implement a battery project at wind farm to be built in Hamburg-Bergedorf in Germany.
Vattenfall head of business area wind Gunnar Groebler said: “We want to use the sites where we generate electricity from renewable energies in order to drive the transformation to a new energy system and to facilitate the integration of renewable energies into the energy system with the storage facilities.”
The batteries are also used by the car manufacturer in the BMW i3 vehicle.
Image: the batteries could be used at a storage project at the Pen y Cymoedd wind farm (Vattenfall)
BMW drives Vattenfall storage
First of up to 1000 lithium-ion batteries will be installed at a Dutch wind farm
By EBS