B. Schenkman, M. Rodgers, D. Watson, Canada WEICan ES In Wind Application Study, presented at iStorage DOE/OE Peer Review Meeting, Washington, DC, September 2016.

Introduction

The Wind Energy Institute of Canada (WEICan) is located on Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada. PEI has a peak load of 260 MW and an installed wind capacity of 204 MW, which produces over 40% of the Island’s load. During high load and low wind, the 200 MW interconnect to the mainland is overloaded and local diesel peaker plants are used to supplement the submarine cable. WEICan owns and operates a 10 MW Wind R&D Park, which includes a 1 MW/2 MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). The BESS has been used in a variety of use-cases to understand the technical and economic impacts of a storage system on agrid. WEICan has begun a collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories to determine the optimal use of our BESS for the PEI grid. Sandia has expertise in the technical and economical evaluation of grid tied energy storage systems including an Energy Storage Test Pad (ESTP) able to evaluate performance of energy storage systems up to 1MVA. By leveraging the existing energy storage system at the WEICan Wind R&D Park, the models and algorithms developed by Sandia to optimize the use cases of energy storage can be validated and refined.

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