Statoil to store energy from floating wind farm in batteries - battery storage systems

Norwegian National Petroleum Corporation said on Monday that it will store the energy of the floating wind farm in Scotland on a powerful battery storage system in a pioneering pilot project.
This system has a megawatt.
Statoil said in a statement that the hourly lithium battery capacity is equivalent to "more than 2 million iPhones", making it one of the most ambitious projects in this field in the world.
Dedicated Site top-up calls the project a "potential game --
In the industry where storage is a key issue, replace the battery storage system ".
Battery is one of the new areas of energy investment.
Renewable energy producers can take advantage of stored energy sources, meet peak demand immediately, or compensate for periods of low wind and low sunlight.
Statoil's pilot project will be installed by the end of 2018 and connected with the world's first floating wind farm expected to start generating electricity a year ago, 25 kilometers (15 miles) off the coast of Scotland) five Hywind turbines were installed.
"Battery storage has the potential to mitigate (wind energy) intermittently and optimize production," Statoil said in a statement . ".
"This can improve efficiency and reduce the cost of offshore wind power generation," it added . ".
Statoil said the battery system will be jointly developed with university and Scottish suppliers, called Batwind.