Tuesday, 13 November 2018

Electronica: Power grid supercapacitor for Scottish island

The Scottish island of Eigg has installed a bank of supercapacitors to augment its power grid, which gets its energy from hydro, wind and solar sources. The graphene-based capacitor array, a ‘SkelGrid from Skeleton Technologies, joins a Pb-acid battery, and fly-wheel energy store installed in 2014 – the latter from Kinetic Traction. When a voltage ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/electronica/electronica-power-grid-supercapacitor-scottish-island-2018-11/

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