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Digital Energy Solutions, a joint venture of the BMW Group and the Viessmann Group, selected Alfen to supply an energy storage system which is connected to a Green City wind farm in Southern Germany. The system, consisting of 52 BMW i3 car batteries with a total capacity of 2.2 MWh, will be used for grid stabilization as well as for the demand-oriented supply of wind power.
This month, Alfen completed the high-voltage grid connections at Solarcentury’s solar PV farms at the location of recycling company Twence in Enschede (17.5 megawatt-peak) and land previously used by zinc smelter Nyrstar in Budel (45 megawatt-peak, co-owned by the German based Encavis AG and by Solarcentury).
Greenchoice selected Alfen to supply an energy storage system connected to its Hartel windfarm in the harbor of Rotterdam. This windfarm consists of eight wind turbines, delivering on average 68 GWh of green energy for 18,000 households. The 10MW (10MWh) energy storage system will be deployed to smooth the fluctuating energy output of the wind farm and to ensure stability of the power grid as the amount of renewable energy further grows.