Sorne Hill wind farm

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The Sorne Hill Wind Farm is a wind farm located in Buncrana, Inishowen Donegal Ireland and erected in 2006. The farm is run by Tapbury Management Limited.

1 Turbines
2 Flow battery storage
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Turbines

Phase 1 of the farm has 16 gearless wind turbines, type Enercon E-70 2 [MW] with a 64 metre hub height and 71 metre rotor diameter giving a total capacity of 32 megawatts. Phase 2 of the farm will which is an additional 6.9 MW of wind power for which three Enercon E-70 2.3 MW turbines have been ordered and are due to be installed in the autumn of 2007. This will make Sorne Hill Wind Farm, at 38 MW, one of the largest wind farms in Ireland.

[edit] Flow battery storage

Diagram of a Flow Battery

In one of the largest contracts for an energy storage system in the wind power industry, VRB Power Systems Inc. has contracted to supply a 1.5 MW x 8 hour Vanadium redox battery system. This will be driven from phase 2 of the wind farm and will enable surplus electricity to be generated when demand is low, and will improve consistency or supply to the electricity network [1] [2].