Statoil’s 30MW Hywind Scotland project, the world’s first floating wind farm, will be wired into an onshore energy storage system (ESS) delivered by German specialist Younicos.

The Batwind project, which will use a 1MW/1.3MWh ESS installed onshore near Peterhead, Scotland, aims to “teach” a battery when to store electricity and when to discharge it to the grid, to boost the value of the power generated offshore at the array, which was switched on last month.