EDF and Stornetic are to set up a joint smart grid storage project in France in order to assess ways to deal with the impact of variable renewable energy on the grid.
German company Stornetic will deliver a DuraStor energy storage device to EDF by June 2017, which will be installed at the French company’s concept grid site in Moret-sur-Loing near Paris.
The concept grid is composed of 10km of real electrical medium and low voltage networks, with several substations and test areas and a neighbourhood of five small houses fitted with local generation.
The storage device – which operates mechanically without the use of chemicals – will allow EDF to transform electrical energy into rotation energy and store it.
EDF R&D renewables and storage program director Etienne Brière said: “Thanks to the unique EDF experimental facility of concept grid, we are able to reproduce real distribution networks and test innovative electrical equipment in fully controllable conditions of operation.
“Thus, as one of the promising storage solutions, we are very excited to assess the performances of the Stornetic technology regarding various applications such as renewables smoothing or frequency regulation.”
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Stornetic DuraStor device to be installed at smart grid test centre near Paris
By EBS