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From: Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: 1GW (sic) Battery Energy Storage Systems
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 17:40:08 +0000
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On 30/11/2024 15:51, john larkin wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 10:50:07 +0000, Martin Brown
> <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 26/11/2024 03:15, john larkin wrote:
>>
>>> Having electricity used to be normal.
>>
>> UK power supply is generally way more stable than US.
> 
> How many hours per year is your power out?

Mine personally used to be entirely reliable after they replaced the 
perished 1950's rubber insulated 3 vertical strands LT with modern 
aluminium compound cable wiring with a steel hawser core. Prior to that 
the lights would flicker in storms and burning bits of rubber would fall 
to the ground under mostly bare copper wires as wet strips of old rubber 
and canvas insulation touched them with much arcing and sparking.

Apart from half a day a year for preventative maintenance where they cut 
down overhanging tree branches it was reliable in the old days. Failure 
is usually because someone has driven into a pole. Hazard of above 
ground cabling (which is unusual in the UK apart from rural backwaters).

However, since the latest shower cut back on preventative maintenance we 
got hammered when storm Arwen hit taking down several (rotten) poles. We 
were down for a couple of days but people around me were down for up to 
two weeks (not enough poles and/or people and kit to put them in). Their 
replace on fail policy can't cope with massive systemic failures. Same 
with a couple of inches of snow and UK grinds to a standstill.

In the cities mains supplies are underground and pretty much reliable 
apart from that infamous incident that I referred to. However, in a cold 
winter on a still and cloudy day the margins now are extremely tight at 
a level where they have to pay some bigger industrial users not to use 
power.

> I'd estimate two total here, on avearge, but a pole on our street
> toppled down recently and that took 5 hours to replace

We had that too in my village. Once a tree fell on it and the steel 
hawser held it but permanently bent all the poles like bananas and the 
other time the milk tanker on sheet ice totalled a pole on one of the 
coldest days of the year (Sunday morning). Isolated random incident so 
the previous power distribution company had us back on by nightfall.

If that happened again today I expect we would get something like :
"Your call is really important to us ... our office hours are 9-5 please 
call back on Monday with you emergency power outage <naff music>".

> Large-region power failures are very rare here, between major
> earthquakes.

They are in the UK too. We don't have earthquakes (well we do notice the 
odd one every few years but they are tiny compared to real earthquakes).

>> The public consultation was yesterday. It really is 1GW injection power
>> and 4 hours so a 4GWhr battery farm (40x bigger than the largest system
>> currently in the UK and being built by a startup with no track record!).
>>
>> It will have ~900 container modules of batteries as close together as
>> they dare (half the US regulation spacing) and in double lines of 50.
>>
>> SO that makes me wonder how big is a 1GW transformer operating at 400kV?
>> And how much does one cost?
> 
> Big utility transformers are made to order, and that can take years.
> The hazards there are obvious.

That is what I thought. I'm trying to put bounds on the lead time. I'm 
more impressed with their sales pitch than I expected to be. My back of 
the envelope calculations suggest an air of unreality about their 
claimed/intended GW injection capacity. Availability of supergrid line 
is not in doubt two main corridors run close by. You can light up a 
fluoro tube stood on end under them. Indeed an artist did just that!

https://www.industrytap.com/florescent-bulbs-unplugged-and-shinning-tapping-electromagnetic-fields/1763

>>
>> I'm guessing the secondary to handle 2500A will have to be (30A = 2mm^2
>> so 3000A ~ 200mm^2 = 16mm diameter) and at a 40:1 stepdown the low side
>> will have to be 40x bigger cross section 6x linear size hollow core?).
>> Are these guesses approximately right? How many turns on each?
>>
>> How much soft iron core does it require (approximately)?
> 
> It takes special gear to measure the inductance of a utility-scale
> transformer. A handheld meter won't do.

Granted.

>> The location chosen is very cunning. They will get paid not to produce
>> electricity by intercepting the payments (to not produce electricity)
>> currently made to wind farm owners in Scotland and off the NE coast.
> 
> Hey, I know how to not produce electricity.

You also have to possess the requisite kit to get paid for not doing it.
(UK infrastructure is a complete mess after decades of under investment)

Another question for my education approximately what is the current 
rating of a modern UK 400kV supergrid line (I presume limited by sagging 
or softening from thermal expansion). Likewise for 132kV and 33kV.

Wiki says ~2GW/circuit at 400kV (seems far too low to me)?

-- 
Martin Brown