According to the cloud giant, the purpose of the pilot is to estimate how much wind power should be sold on which electricity market and at what price. On a larger scale, the two businesses claim that this project will allow wind asset developers to interact and contribute value to wind energy providers, expediting the renewable energy transition and worldwide grid decarbonization.

Fluence said post-publication of this story that the BESS used at the Saint-Ghislain data centre is 2.75MW/5.5MWh, based on the company’s Gridstack sixth generation modular energy storage product. “We are excited to partner with Google to deploy this reliable, zero-emission power system to help them replace conventional diesel generation, provide critical backup energy, and increase the sustainability of the St. Ghislain data centre,” Fluence senior VP and president for the EMEA region Paul McCusker said. “Fluence looks forward to accelerating the data centre industry’s efforts to reduce emissions while ensuring high performance and reliability for their facilities and the local power grids,” McCusker said, adding that the collaboration with Centrica highlighted the energy storage company’s “commitment to working with the best route-to-the-market providers across all geographical locations”.