Challenge
Spectral has been commissioned by leading Dutch sustainable energy provider, Greenchoice, to implement a mission-critical energy control system to optimize the largest wind-coupled battery system in the Netherlands.
Approach
This is a STELLAR project. The 10MW / 10MWh battery system is connected with a 24 MW wind farm consisting of 8 turbines. Spectral’s energy management solution ensures that the wind and battery assets are coordinated in unison to deliver ancillary services to the Dutch TSO, Tennet, as well as to facilitate portfolio optimization for Greenchoice based on market price forecasts.
Outcome
Spectral’s STELLAR Platform controls and optimizes the wind + battery assets in real time, delivering multiple stacked energy services via advanced control algorithms. Local power management (to make sure the grid connection constraints are not exceeded) is combined with delivery of Frequency Containment Reserves (FCR) to the TSO Tennet, as well as execution of trading schedules / setpoints which are sent via Greenchoice’s trading systems.