1MW Shetland NaS Battery

Completed

Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electricity transmission and distribution)
Other Power and Storage Technologies(Energy storage)

Applied Research and Development

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Project Contact
Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution

LCN Fund Tier 1

Ofgem

01 September 2010

31 March 2014

43 months

£1,000,000

Power

Scotland

Energy Storage and Demand Response

Project Contact, Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution

The Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution DECC funding award requires delivery of the 1MWe battery by end March 2011, as a result procurement is well underway, additional functionality of this battery will feature in our Tier 2 bid. This Tier 1 bid secures the initial learning from the installation and operation of the battery and integration with local Demand Side Response to remove station peaks providing additional Demand capacity (in a similar way to managing a network load constraint).
Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution's Tier 2 element subsequently deals with the optimisation of potentially simultaneous modes of operation including:

• Renewable Generation constraint avoidance
• Power station operation optimisation (to reduce fuel consumption)
• Stability control including SVC functions
• Provision of ancillary services. This approach maximises the learning and provides the greatest leverage funding from Scottish and Southern Energy, DECC funding and the LCNF.

There is little use of electrical storage in the UK system at present, by introducing this battery to the islanded network of Shetland it will be possible to gain knowledge of the abilities and economics of using batteries to manage thermal constraints by demonstrating how it can reduce the peak demand on Lewick Power Station. Significant insight will be gained into the operation of MW scale batteries operating on a constrained distribution network with and without embedded power stations. This will be the largest battery installed and operating in the UK and as such will provide high quality validated learning for the industry.

This Project involves installing a 1MWe connected battery at the Lerwick Power Station on Shetland and will provide learning regarding the operation of the battery and its integration with local Demand Side Response to remove station peaks providing additional demand capacity (in a similar way to managing a network load constraint).
This project also secured funding from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Smart Grid Demonstration Capital Grant Programme. The aim is to install a grid scale energy storage device on the Shetland network with a power conversion system and local controller providing a choice of modes of operation. A Sodium Sulphur (NaS) battery system was selected through a tender process.

15/03/16