UK rotating stabilizers to use 100% renewables to help grid security: Statkraft

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Statkraft expects to use 100% renewable energy to power its new rotating stabilizers in the UK, the Norwegian company told S&P Global Platts late July 6. The two synchronous machines, to be manufactured and installed by GE Power Conversion at Statkraft's site in Keith, Moray, northeast Scotland are to provide stability services to the transmission network under contracts awarded by National Grid Electricity System Operator earlier this year. The rotating stabilizers are powered by energy drawn from the grid. This energy flows through the grid connection which also delivers the stability services to the grid, Statkraft said. "The contract for that import power is not yet signed but we expect it to be a 100% renewable energy supply contract. More importantly, without the project, National Grid ESO would need to turn off renewables and turn up fossil fuel generation," it said. In broad terms, importing 1 MW of energy to power the project would enable an extra 100 MW of renewable generation to run and save 100 MW of fossil fuel generation and CO_2, it said.