Small Canadian island province's big plans for wind-energy storage

WEICan's hydrogen storage tanks at the wind-storage project

Tower sections have begun arriving at the Wind Energy Institute of Canada (WEICan) test field for a C$25m ($24m) pilot project that aims to drive development of grid-connected wind-energy storage for northern regions.

Five DeWind D9.2 turbines were ordered in the summer for the 10MW demonstration installation at North Cape, on the northern tip of Prince Edward Island. WEICan is in final deliberations as to what type of storage technology to trial.

“With the growth of ‘big wind’, our dialogue with industry, government and various policymakers led us to see a wind-energy research and development [R&D] park as having some appeal,” says WEICan chief executive Scott Harper.

“And from this, and further discussions with utility systems operators, it became clear Log in to read complete article.

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