Last year, RWE initiated the construction of a utility-scale battery storage system at its biomass plant in Eemshaven, also in connection with the OranjeWind project. That storage will have an installed power capacity of 35 MW and a storage capacity of 41 MWh, and will consist of a total of 110 lithium-ion battery racks that will be virtually coupled with RWE’s power plants in the Netherlands.
For the battery storage system at the site of its Moerdijk power plant, RWE is installing lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries in three shipping containers. The storage system will be connected to the high-voltage grid via the existing grid connection and will be able to provide balancing energy instantaneously.