The world's first commercial composite Phase Change Material plant for curtailed wind power

Title: The world’s first commercial composite Phase Change Material plant for curtailed wind power video. 

Duration: 3.44 mins

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[TEXT: UK Research and Innovation China - Inspiring Partnerships]

[TEXT: Nanjon Jiangsu Province, Population: 8.335 million. Energy Storage. Project: Grid Scale Storage for Intermittency. Funders: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, National Natural Science Foundation of China.]

[Yulong Ding, Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage] The UK has a scenario which is quite similar to China, it has lots of win in north Scotland and China has lots of wind in the north west part of China. The load of centres in the UK are mainly in the south and in China the load centre is in the south east. So basically there are issues of transmitting the renewables from north to south. Last year China curtailed some one hundred billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy, that's 35 billion Chinese Yuan which is £3.5 billion. 

The materials we developed through a collaboration initially funded by EPSRC in the UK take curtailed wind power, turn that into heat store that heat in the materials and then use the heat for space heating. Ten plants are using that, hundreds of megawatts. 

[Yi Jin, Jiangsu Jinhe Energy Technology Company Ltd] Jinhe Energy is now able to undertake independently the complete design and manufacturing of heat storage facilities. We have already launched nearly 20 projects with a total contract value of nearly 100 millon Chinese Yuan. This technology originated with Professor Ding's team gave us a lot of help and support during the development and commercialisation process. Through this kind of cooperation we can turn fundamental research in Birmingham in to a marketable, scalable product. We hope that in the future in we can set up a demonstration plant in the UK and sell our products on the UK market, promoting the application of heat storage technologies around the world. 

[Yulong Ding] There is no reason why we cannot use similar technologies to produce materials in the UK and to use technology to harvest curtailed wind power for space heating. 

[TEXT: UK Research and Innovation opened its China office in 2007. Since then the China team has facilitated 257 collaborative projects, between more than 230 academic institutions and businesses representing more than £275m in joint investment. UK Research and Innovation China is proud to support one of the world's most important partnerships.] 

[TEXT: Presented by UK Research and Innovation China, produced by Jack Smith, cinematography & editing by Nelson Quan, motion graphics by Abby Fan, original score by James Cowan. With special thanks to The Newton Fund]. 

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