Lead batteries for utility energy storage: A review
Electrical energy storage with lead batteries is well established and is being successfully applied to utility energy storage. Improvements to lead battery technology have
Lead–acid batteries have been used for energy storage in utility applications for many years but it has only been in recent years that the demand for battery energy storage has increased.
Amsterdam's acclaimed battery storage solution provider, Dispatch Grid Services, has kicked off the construction of the Dordrecht 45MW/90MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). This project is poised to overtake the 30MW/68MWh Pollux project by SemperPower, claiming the title of the Netherlands' largest independent BESS.
"Thanks to this energy storage system, the stadium will be able to use its own sustainable energy more intelligently and, as Amsterdam Energy ArenA BV, it can trade in the batteries' available storage capacity," said Henk van Raan, director of innovation at the Johan Cruijff ArenA.
The lead–acid batteries are both tubular types, one flooded with lead-plated expanded copper mesh negative grids and the other a VRLA battery with gelled electrolyte. The flooded battery has a power capability of 1.2 MW and a capacity of 1.4 MWh and the VRLA battery a power capability of 0.8 MW and a capacity of 0.8 MWh.
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