Hybrid solar vanadium battery system withstands Australia’s harsh weather
Western Australia (WA)-headquartered energy solutions company Australian Flow Batteries (AFB) has installed a containerized hybrid solar and vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) diesel replacement system (DRS) at the Onslow Marine Support Base (OMSB) in the Pilbara.
AFB’s DRS system currently deployed in Onslow features a retractable 110 kW solar array co-located with a VRFB, which once commissioned and operational, will support a green site facility along with further expansions to introduce a green ship-to-shore power solution whilst at berthage.
AFB Chairman Mark Reynolds told pv magazine the system supports the already carbon-neutral port facility and will look to provide a green solution to vessels when in the OMSB port in the future for operational, maintenance, or servicing requirements.
“The scalability of this system is of great benefit, it is as simple as adding more containers of VRF batteries or containerized solar arrays to scale up. Once on-site, an array is unfurled from inside a 6-meter container and, when deployed covers a footprint of 6 m x 136 m,” Reynolds said.
It has a typical average yield of 528 kWh/day, up to 4 MWh/day in clustered setups, with power output being 55-95 kW for a single unit and 330-570 kW for clustered units.
The capacity to pack up quickly makes the DRS well-suited to the OMSB’s wind region D rating, with the system able to withstand wind speeds of up to 86 km per hour without ground anchors.
“Having a containerized solution that’s easily deployed or packed up or moved prior to a weather event like a cyclone, protects the solar panels. As there’s ample warning when a cyclone is coming, it takes less than an hour to retract the solar system back into its container and once the cyclone’s passed, you can deploy it again free of damage,” Reynolds said.
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