E.ON Announces Nearly 20 MW of Wind Energy Storage
http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2017/03/e-on-announces-nearly-20-mw-of-wind-energy-storage.htmlMar 2, 2017
E.ON North America announced its nearly 20 MW Texas Waves energy storage projects will be located at the existing E.ON Pyron and Inadale wind farms in West Texas.
The two 9.9-MW short-duration batteries are scheduled to come online by the end of 2017.
"Our Texas Waves projects allow us to break new ground and establish ourselves in the storage business in the Texas market, complementing our more than 2.7 gigawatts of operating wind capacity in the state," said Steve Trenholm, president of E.ON Solar & Energy Storage.
Texas Waves will provide ancillary services to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas market and will be able to quickly respond to shifts in power demand.
The Texas project follows Iron Horse, E.ON’s first grid-connected lithium battery system project. That 10-MW storage facility with an adjacent 2-MW solar array is being built southeast of Tuscon, Arizona, for operations in the first half of this year.