Battery Energy Storage System installed on Hollandse Kust Noord Baseload Power Hub

CrossWind, a JV of Shell and Eneco, announced today that a next step has been made in the construction of a Baseload Power Hub for the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord Offshore Wind Farm, with the installation of a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS).

CrossWind includes several innovations in the Hollandse Kust Noord Wind Farm, located 22 km off the coast at IJmuiden. The largest part of the innovation plan is to build and test a pilot-scale Baseload Power Hub on an additional monopile within the contours of the Hollandse Kust Noord wind farm.

The baseload power hub consists of a combination of storage technologies that provide hour-to-day-scale supply profile flexibility, consisting of a battery and hydrogen roundtrip system with in-situ hydrogen production, storage and conversion back to power. CrossWind will specifically focus on piloting the offshore hydrogen chain to mirror a future offshore baseload wind power hub.

The aim is to demonstrate, for a single full-scale wind turbine, solutions that can time-shift the electricity supply profile from periods with high wind speeds to those with lower wind speeds, CrossWind says on the project website. Installed alongside a full-scale wind turbine as the renewable energy source, the Baseload Power Hub also directly connects to floating photovoltaic panels.

The 1MWe BESS was installed on the Baseload Power Hub’s lower deck. The BESS is provided by Statron AG and Freqcon GmbH. The installation was performed by EPCI contractor Rosetti Marino SpA. Source: CrossWind Image source: CrossWind LinkedIn

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