Duke Energy, a Charlotte, N.C. headquartered company, has declared its plans to store the power produced at its west Texas located Notrees Windpower Project in the Dynamic Power Resource system developed by Xtreme Power, an Austin-based company.
Earlier in November 2009, the company had foretold its plans to make an investment of 22 million received from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to erect a battery storage facility and to store the power generated from its 153 MW Notrees wind farm in Ector and Winkler counties.
Xtreme Power will design, erect, and manage a 36 MW Dynamic Power Resource system at the Duke Energy wind farm. The system is designed to store the additional wind power generated inside the batteries and release it to meet the increase in demand for electricity. The stored power will not be released when the wind turbine is in the running condition. The system while supplying increased power to meet the power demand during peak periods will also maintain the frequency of electric power in a stable manner when linked to the grid.
Duke Energy will complete the work in close liaison with the Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to manage storing the generated wind power in the storage batteries for the state power grid. The project team will receive advice/suggestions from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in collecting the data and reviewing the potential of the system for increased level of energy storage options in the clean energy industry in future.
The installation of the battery storage facility is anticipated to be completed by the end of 2012.
Source: http://www.duke-energy.com/