Huxley Hill Wind Farm, Tasmania
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Huxley Hill Wind Farm (also known as the King Island Wind Farm) is a wind power station at King Island, Tasmania, Australia, owned by Hydro Tasmania.
The farm started generating in 1998 and has since been expanded twice, initially with three 250kW wind turbines, then in 2003 with two 850kW turbines, to provide a total generating capacity of 2.5MW of electricity.
[edit] Flow battery storage
During the 2003 expansion a vanadium redox flow battery was installed, containing 55,000 litres of vanadium based electrolyte - one of the first such installations on a wind farm. This allows up to 800kWh of surplus electricity to be stored. The battery has an output power of 200kW and is used to help maintain the electricity supply when demand exceeds turbine output (load balancing). A short-term peak output of 400kW can be supplied. As a result the use of diesel generators has been cut significantly.
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