Scottish technology company Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS) is to use its technology to enable a shared grid connection for Wind Harvest’s Lochend wind farm and the MeyGen tidal array in Scotland.
The behind-the-meter active network management (ANM) scheme will use an ANM element product to allow the two projects to share the same connection to the grid.
Under the terms of the deal, the four-turbine Lochend wind farm in Caithness in the Scottish Highlands will be able to utilise MeyGen’s capacity while the tidal generators are not at full output, SGS said.
It will mean Wind Harvest’s project connects to the grid three years earlier than expected, SGS added.
The company’s technology will monitor both the tidal array and Lochend, controlling the wind farm to keep both generators under the safe limit of MeyGen’s agreed connection.
The ANM element is currently being deployed and is expected to be fully functional by May 2017, SGS said.
Image: MeyGen phase 1A turbine (Atlantis Resources)
Smart wind blows with MeyGen
Smarter Grid Solutions technology to enable shared grid connection
By EBS