China now has the world’s largest battery with a storage capacity of 36MWh to combat any intermittence produced by wind and solar power at an adjoining farm.
Brain the size of a planet, battery the size of a building – both sound like figures of speech, but the second at least is solid reality. It’s up and running at a combined solar power and wind farm near you.
Near you, that is, if you live in Zhangbei, in China’s Hebei province. It’s currently, by a distance, the biggest battery in the world. Or, strictly speaking, thousands of batteries linked up in series to provide a total power storage capacity of 36MWh, for an installed capacity of 100MW wind power and 40MW solar PV.
With a smart grid connection to boot, that’s enough to play a valuable role in buffering the intermittence of both renewable sources.
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