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a while now, mostly with its shipbuilding country,” commented Anthony Yeates of
capabilities, but has recently also signed a RATCH-Australia.
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with
WIND the French company DOLFINES to cooperate
on the commercial development of their
activities in Europe and Asia to boost the BATTERIES
EQUINOR ENTERS CHINESE floating wind sector.
Hitachi ABB Power Grids
OFFSHORE WIND MARKET
Equinor and the Chinese WIND Provides Battery Storage
Tech to Thailand
shipbuilder CIMC Raffles Vestas-powered 214-MW Hitachi ABB Power Grids Ltd. recently

(Yantai CIMC Raffles wind farm opens in Western announced its selection by Impact Solar
Limited, a subsidiary of Impact Solar Group,
Offshore) have signed Australia to provide Battery Energy Storage System
(BESS) and controls technology to a “smart
a strategic cooperation Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas industrial park” project in Thailand, which is a
part of the country’s largest private microgrid
Wind Systems A/S (CPH:VWS) said it has
agreement to develop completed the construction of the 214-MW at Saha Industrial Park in Sriracha.
Yandin wind farm in Western Australia.
Once commissioned, the park will have a
offshore wind projects in state’s biggest, was officially opened today total generation capacity of 214 MW from a
The wind farm, said to be the Australian
combination of co-generation gas turbines,
the Yellow Sea, off China’s by Western Australian energy minister Bill rooftop solar, floating solar, and battery
Johnston.
energy storage systems.
Shandong province. a unit of Thailand’s RATCH Group PCL enabled to integrate the electricity produced
The advanced microgrid is digitally-
It is owned by RATCH-Australia Corp,
The Norway-based energy major has (BKK:RATCH), and Australia’s Alinta Energy. from distributed energy resources (DERs),
confirmed that the two companies have RATCH-Australia joined Alinta as an investor, including solar, and simulates a utility scale
entered into an agreement to jointly tap taking a 70% stake in the project, in 2019. power system. Using real-time automation
into the offshore wind opportunities in the Vestas provided engineering, procurement information, the microgrid will manage
province that plans to allocate a total of 23 and construction (EPC) for the facility and and optimise the power output of DERs
GW of offshore wind projects by 2025. will service and maintain it over the next 25 from across the entire industrial park. The
“We are looking forward to cooperating years. microgrid also balances energy fluctuations
with CIMC Raffles a strong, local industrial The wind farm, located near Dandaragan, resulting from the intermittent availability of
partner in this area to jointly mature and consists of 51 units of Vestas’ V150-4.2 MW sunshine and will provide back-up power to
develop early and at scale, offshore wind turbine and is expected to generate enough the park’s data centre and other tenants who
projects in the Shandong province”, Equinor power a year to meet the demand of about rely on grid stability for their businesses.
said in a statement. 200,000 households across the state. Yep Min Teo, senior vice president, Asia
The company said the agreement with “It really is a phenomenal wind resource Pacific, Hitachi ABB Power Grids, Grid
CIMC Raffles had the potential to support that is present in the region and this project Automation, says, “Hitachi ABB Power Grids’
Equinor’s strategy to become a global offshore will be one of the most efficient and highest battery energy storage system (BESS) is a
wind major by building scale in core areas and green energy producing generators in the critical part of Impact Solar Group’s plans
securing growth options in attractive markets
for offshore wind.
“We are stepping up to become a global
offshore wind major, and to deliver on our
strategy we continue to assess different
business opportunities globally”, the company
said.
Offshore wind opportunities in China have
opened through the country’s ambitions to
install over 12 GW of offshore wind capacity
by 2020 and 40-65 GW by 2030.
Equinor is behind several operational and
projects under development in offshore wind
worldwide, including the world’s first floating
wind farm (Hywind Scotland) and the world’s
largest floating wind farm currently under
construction in Norway (Hywind Tampen).
As for CIMC Raffles, the company has
been a part of the offshore wind market for

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