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MADE IN GERMANY CONTENTS 21 February 2019 ENERGY STORAGE 02 UK 03–09 Battery overdrive he global installation of energy service markets, such as the balancing n Developers get creative storage is surging as costs mechanism, are now the name of Energy storage is continue to fall and regulators the game. n Pivot’s ambitious play T n Eelpower and Orsted set to deliver step up efforts to facilitate batteries to “There was a very significant growth n Council and EU salt cavern schemes flourishing as costs help balance growing volumes of in interest in storage, particularly after intermittent generation. the enhanced frequency response Figures compiled by renews show auction, which seems to have peaked,” IRELAND/GERMANY 10–12 fall and regulations around 2.5GW of 1MW-plus storage is said Anthony Price, director at UK loosen in the drive to due online in major markets in 2019 storage consultancy Swanbarton. — more than double the around 1GW “It has turned into a more mature balance grids, writes deployed last year. This expansion is market with more sophisticated types led by the UK, Australia, the US and of investors who are doing it with their Tim Probert South Africa. eyes open,” he added. Storage developers believe the Nonetheless, UK installations are n DS3 capped tender finally launched technology is on an unstoppable path due to hit almost 600MW in 2019, n Brandenburg flagship blueprint as renewables-plus-storage solutions which would top last year’s tally of n German power-to-gas nears reality become increasingly competitive with 460MW. n REDT looks beyond lithium-ion fossil fuel alternatives. The role of battery storage for “The point at which renewables vehicle charging and the rising FRANCE/REST OF EUROPE 14-15 generate cheaper than existing number of councils developing thermal plant is coming to pass,” said projects are key to the UK market. Mark Simon, chief executive of UK The country’s near neighbour, developer Eelpower. Ireland, is about to take its first In the UK, energy storage is going serious dive into energy storage through the same kind of growing having merely dipped its toe in recent pains as renewables did when support years. The Delivering a Secure n France and its territories get active mechanisms evolved. Sustainable System (DS3) tender, due n Italy leads European charge Developers have had to crunch the by the summer, is expected to n Schemes to improve grid stability numbers hard to make projects stack procure more than 100MW of storage n Battery demand tipping point ahead up financially in light of the suspension for Ireland’s Integrated Single of the capacity market and derating of Electricity Market. AMERICAS 16–18 short-duration projects as well as In Germany, standalone projects for other regulatory uncertainties such as the primary control reserve market grid charges. remain king but the country is finally The imminent removal of starting to get to grips with how embedded benefits, which incentivise co-located storage can enhance wind the use of storage to avoid grid sites. charges at peak times, have hit Power-to-gas schemes, meanwhile, n Gigawatt gain from US regulations financial models for storage projects. are poised to reach the 100MW-plus n Ontario’s peak shaving opportunities Co-located sites remain on the scale backed by major players such as n Mexican’s first big battery agenda but planned regulatory changes grid operator TenneT. n Utility-scale development in Chile to remove barriers to deployment are The US remains the most advanced yet to take serious effect. storage nation in terms of policy, with REST OF WORLD 19–21 Merchant projects that can California and New York states setting renews.biz participate in a wider range of grid ambitious targets for deployment. renews figures showed around 2GW of US storage on the book as utilities’ procurement programmes and regulatory changes in regional grid markets take effect. n India’s storage industry mission A similar albeit smaller-scale n Policy push in China and beyond storage boom is happening in Canada, n Middle East make storage moves where rising grid charges and demand n South Australia leads the way response programmes are motivating large industrial users to take FRONT PHOTO advantage of peak shaving services. In the southern hemisphere, Australia is increasingly becoming the land of big batteries, particularly in South Australia where incentives are high amid grid instability. In Asia, storage is being driven by n BIG BOOST: Eneco’s Puurs 2MW state-backed and regional battery supplied by Alfen and linked SKY’S THE LIMIT: ElectraNet’s 30MW Dalrymple battery storage project programmes to balance renewables to 2.3MW Enercon turbines, Belgium’s in Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, commissioned last month output, in particular for solar in India Photo: ElectraNet and wind in China. first large storage system Photo: Alfen n 21 February 2019 ENERGY STORAGE 03 Creative surge needed to bring on the batteries

K energy storage developers hit “significantly” by Ofgem’s Targeted live in the BM last August — the are having to be more creative Charging Review minded-to decision 10MW Breech Farm developed by Developers rethink Uto bring battery projects to last November to remove the financial Anesco, which was followed shortly fruition as a morass of regulatory benefits of transmission and afterwards with the 6MW Clay Hill. business models uncertainty threatens to slam the distribution grid charge avoidance. More aggregated storage sites are brakes on progress. “Storage has been really useful to expected to follow in the coming years to make numbers Industry experts said the sector had avoid importing from the grid at peak as National Grid adopts the Europe- been hit by a “triple whammy” of a times and that has been quite lucrative wide balancing platform TERRE (Trans stack up, writes capacity market suspension by the but that will be disappearing,” she said. European Replacement Reserves European Commission, frequency “Moving to a fixed charge from 2021 Exchange). Tim Probert response market price depression is a blow to the business model for Everoze partner Felicity Jones said and the impending phase-out of storage — developers, investors and the UK is seeing a “bifurcation” in embedded benefits by Ofgem. operators need to be more creative to revenue models for storage. Figures compiled by renews show a find their niche in the market.” “On the one hand, some parties healthy storage pipeline of almost Developers are doing just that by focused on energy-intensive models 600MW of 1MW-plus projects due exploring market models that put a such as the BM and arbitrage, online this year, which would better greater focus on more energy- which are location agnostic, more last year’s total of 460MW. intensive modes of operation for merchant and tend to benefit from Many of those projects, however, batteries, such as National Grid’s economies of scale on a per are based on grid ancillary service balancing mechanism (BM), electric megawatt-hour basis,” she added. contracts such as frequency response vehicle charging, arbitrage and “The other big strategy is focused on and the capacity market, which no co-location with solar PV and wind. location-specific longer offers plentiful returns as they Storage aggregator Limejump revenue streams, such did a year or two ago. Energy entered the first battery to go as the emerging 04 One prominent UK storage developer told renews it did not reach financial close on any of its 10MW- plus projects in 2018 and is not expecting to bring anything online until it works out how to make the numbers stack up. “The model is highly likely to be a combination of merchant revenue in the wholesale electricity market via timeshifting, the capacity market and Containerised Substations Lloyds NERS ICP firm frequency response contracts,” a source said. Electricity Storage Network policy chief Madeleine Greenhalgh said the renews.biz storage sector’s prospects would be

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Parc Stormy, Bridgend Kiwi Power 4 Lithium-ion battery Expected online between 2020-22 Pelham, Hertfordshire Statera Energy 50 Lithium-ion battery Avonmouth, Bristol Foundation Property & 17 Lithium-ion battery Pen y Cymoedd, Neath Port Talbot Vattenfall 22 Lithium-ion battery Capital Pilsworth landfill site, Lancashire Highview Power 5 Liquid air Brook Street, Lancashire Limejump 20 Lithium-ion battery Storage, Viridor Cheshire, Cheshire West Storelectric 40 Compressed air Port of Tyne, Tyne and Wear Foresight 35 Lithium-ion battery Hill Hall, Essex Lightsource 3 Lithium-ion battery Plessey, Devon Kiwi Power 2 Lithium-ion battery Holmsleigh, Devon Limejump 4 Lithium-ion battery Rock Farm, Shropshire Eelpower 20 Lithium-ion battery Langley, West Midlands Statera Energy 49 Lithium-ion battery Roosecote, Cumbria Centrica 49 Lithium-ion battery Norton, County Durham Statera Energy 49 Lithium-ion battery Roundponds, Wiltshire Gresham House 10 Lithium-ion battery Pensnett, West Midlands Arenko 50 Lithium-ion battery Thrybergh, South Yorkshire Barn Power/Eelpower 1.2 Lithium-ion battery Rampisham, Dorset Limejump 3.5 Lithium-ion battery Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear Enel (Element Power) 25 Lithium-ion battery Roaring Hill, Fife RES 30 Lithium-ion battery West Burton B, Nottinghamshire EDF Energy Renewables 49 Lithium-ion battery South Gyle, Edinburgh Arenko 50 Lithium-ion battery Westhampnett, West Sussex West Sussex County 4.4 Lithium-ion battery Council South Gyle 2, Edinburgh Arenko 20 Lithium-ion battery Southwark, London Veolia 2 Lithium-ion battery TOTAL 460.25MW Stanground, Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire 10 Lithium-ion battery Due to go live in 2019 Council/Bouygues Energies & Services AdD HyStor, West Midlands University of Sheffield 1 Flywheel Sunnydale, Leicestershire Limejump 4.45 Lithium-ion battery Asfordby, Leicestershire UK Power Reserve 20 Lithium-ion battery Woodston, Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire 3 Lithium-ion battery Bacton, Norfolk Anesco/Shell 1.25 Lithium-ion battery Council/Bouygues Bloxwich, West Midlands Arenko 41 Lithium-ion battery Energies & Services Bolton, Lancashire UK Power Reserve 20 Lithium-ion battery TOTAL 354.95MW

distribution system Major commercial and industrial usage and how clean energy can play resulting ancillary service revenue and 03 operator services, local users of electricity are also expected a role in their day-to-day consumption.” energy savings. flexibility markets and to procure behind-the-meter battery The law firm is working with Carter Jonas energy specialist behind-the-meter solutions engaging storage on a wider scale. developers Thrive Renewables and Simon Currie said times had been customers directly.” “Large corporates have much Aura Power, which joined forces to “extremely tough” in the storage Jones noted a “fundamental shift” greater awareness of how storage can offer storage to UK businesses free of market but expected to see positive in the development of batteries for play a big part in their own power charge in return for a share of the change in the months ahead. EV charging in areas of grid constraint “With National Grid set to utilise and expects a greater role for FIELD DAY: Stratera Energy’s batteries more effectively and 50MW Pelham Photo: Stratera Energy storage in large-scale, subsidy-free distribution network operators to follow solar. suit, revenues from battery technology TLT Solicitors partner Maria in the energy market are set to be Connolly, meanwhile, said she proven over the coming year,” he said. expected a significant rise in the “This breakthrough will lead to an number of multi-technology projects inevitable acceleration in deployment, that combine solar and storage to delivered through increased investor provide “destination charging” EV confidence unlocking investment infrastructure. finance.”n 21 February 2019 ENERGY STORAGE 05 Pivot Power accelerates 2GW of driving ambition ivot Power will this year bring online the first two of 45 Developer gets into Pproposed energy storage projects it hopes will transform first gear with electric vehicle charging in the UK. In total, the company plans to install vehicle charging 2GW of battery storage, with each facility costing about £25m (€29m) to projects, writes develop and build. A pair of 50MW projects – one in Robin Lancaster Southampton in southern England and the other in Carlisle in northern England – are scheduled to start operating in October, according to Pivot chief executive Matt Allen. The company is in advanced talks with unnamed technology suppliers and expects contracts to be finalised in the next couple of months for delivery in quarter three, he added. ON THE BALL: 3MW Tesla battery storage project developed by Pivot Discussions are also ongoing with EPC Power at Arsenal Football Club’s Emirates Stadium in London contractors for the two projects. Photo: Arsenal Football Club and Pivot Power A further three 50MW plants have been granted planning permission at receptive to councils, private charging in the medium term. The sites in Norwich, Taunton and companies and motorway service Pivot chief believes building more Braintree – the first of eight Pivot stations.” charging stations will make electric Power plans to commission in 2020. Allen said there would be a time lag vehicles more attractive. The company hopes to secure between the batteries coming online “There is an element of ‘If you build planning permission for the other five and EV charging infrastructure being it, they will come’ to this,” he said. developments in the coming months. in place while suitable locations were While the main focus of the “Another 10 will be built in 2021 and being sourced for the superhubs. discussions around Pivot Power’s we will continue with that build-out The Pivot chief could not put a activities has been on EV charging, rate until 2024,” Allen said. specific timescale on when EV Allen maintains the company is The ultimate aim is for Pivot’s charging would be linked to the fundamentally a battery storage battery projects to be linked to EV batteries. “It could be three months – developer. charging stations with 40-50 charging it could be six months,” he said, EV charging would be the “cherry on bays to create a ‘superhub’ that could without elaborating further. the top” of the company’s work, Allen be used by individual drivers, by a Once a suitable charging site is added, and provide between 10% and corporate fleet or for public transport. chosen and up and running, Pivot 30% of its revenue over time. Ideally, Pivot’s EV charging sites will Power would benefit from a one-off The majority of the company’s renews.biz be within a 5km radius of a storage connection fee, an annual capacity revenue will come from traditional facility. The company is in advanced charge and a pence per kilowatt-hour energy storage through providing discussions regarding possibilities for volume rate. power for wholesale trading, as well as the Southampton and Carlisle “We would rather push for large services and frequency balancing to initiatives. volumes of affordable electricity as National Grid. “Each site will have different opposed to pushing for less, more The company has launched a opportunities and we will assess them expensive power.” £250m fundraising campaign, which it on a site-by-site basis. We are Charging sites would be linked to is hoping to close by May having receptive to councils, private the storage plants via an overhead or garnered a great deal of interest, said companies and motorway service underground cable, in what Allen Allen. UK investment manager Downing stations,” Allen added. describes as private wire has provided financial backing to Pivot For example, the Southampton arrangements. Power for the first projects. battery project at the Nursling No deals are in place yet as to who Allen believes that, as more electricity substation close to junction will provide the chargers, but renewable capacity is added to the UK three of the M27 motorway could companies such as Tesla and German network, the company’s projects will offer opportunities for private car outfit Ionity are potential customers become even more attractive to charging. for EV charging. investors. “Each site will have different Allen is unconcerned by fears in “The increase in volatility from more AT THE WHEEL: Matt Allen opportunities and we will assess them some industry quarters that poor car renewables boosts the business case Photo: Pivot Power on a site-by-site basis. We are sales could dent demand for EV for batteries.” n 21 February 2019 ENERGY STORAGE 06 Eelpower bullish over decades of delivery

elpower is confident it will hit its most expandable,” said chief executive of the capacity market, the impending UK developer targets 1GW target for UK storage Mark Simon. phase-out of embedded benefits via Edeployment by 2022 despite The company has an immediate Ofgem’s Targeted Charging Review over 1000MW of regulatory headwinds and an pipeline of 95MW in early-stage (TCR) and falling frequency response uncertain risk appetite in the debt development, he added. prices offered by National Grid. sites, writes finance market. “The quality of sites we can wrap up “FR remains a healthy revenue The Hampshire developer operates now ensures we can deliver projects stream and I do not Tim Probert six grid-connected battery projects for the next 10-20 years.” worry about the totalling 34MW and, while it has a Simon is unfazed by the suspension volatility of FR price 07 further 34MW at least due online by the year-end, it has identified an additional 1160MW of “suitable sites”. Co-location shift to stash peak power “We have identified a lot of good resham House is to step up absorbed by storage to peak shift sites, some of which will be visible Gdevelopment with a keen focus and the numbers start to look quite to other developers, and we are on the co-location with existing wind interesting if you know what you renews.biz working through which are the and solar sites on a merchant basis. are doing.” “We have built five energy storage The company is exploring how to sites and we will be building a lot maximise its 22MW grid connection more,” said head of new energy capacity for Wathegar 2 via storage, Ben Guest. which could in turn facilitate new The London developer is turbines to be added to the site. considering adding storage to its “We have nine Senvion turbines of 18.45MW Wathegar 2 wind farm in 2.05MW but that is their maximum Wick, Scotland, acquired last year rated capacity and most of the time from BayWa, to absorb peak output we are generating less than that. when high wind speeds drive down “If you want to add capacity you power prices. have to have a separate project but “Wathegar 2 is a great example of you can take advantage of grid a starting point of how we start to capacity by sharing the connection CATCH THE WAVE: Eelpower’s 1.2MW of battery storage at Barn add value to existing sites rather via sub-metering. It requires some Energy’s 260kW Thrybergh hydro power plant on the river Don near than doing it from scratch,” said paperwork but it is pregnant Rotherham in south Yorkshire Photo: Eelpower Guest. “The spikes could be with value.” n

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— renewables 06 growth will mean Orsted on track to access all more volatility.” Eelpower sees promise in National Grid’s move towards week-ahead auctions for FR. “We think batteries areas with a 20MW test bed will be rewarded more under FR rsted is preparing to use its auctions,” said Simon. 20MW Carnegie Road battery The company expects the capacity Ostorage site in Liverpool as a market, said to account for around test bed to participate in as many UK 10% of revenue for storage projects, energy markets as possible. will be reinstated. “I think it will be The Danish developer said it is on exactly the same — supportive but track for the site, completed in not a game changer.” December, to be “fully market ready” The Eelpower chief is encouraged next month ahead of its first provision by Energy Secretary Greg Clark’s of firm frequency response (FFR) to “After the trilemma” speech last National Grid in April. November in which he said smart “We have been working on market technologies such as storage were access — FFR, the capacity market, the essential. wholesale market and the balancing “What I see is government clearing mechanism — to get us to a stage the decks to put in place where we have the flexibility to enter compensation for flexible assets, into any market as and when,” said which will motivate us to build the lead origination and investment 1GW-plus of storage we need in the manager for energy storage Bridgit BACKSTAGE PASS: Orsted intends to take part in all energy markets, next few years,” said Simon. Hartland-Johnson. with its Carnegie Road site due to be market ready next month Photo: Orsted While he believes TCR and other “As the energy market changes, grid charge changes are the we want to build up a profile of picture: “All my instincts tell me there onshore batteries to mitigate “presage of a better future”, Simon services to be accredited by National will be a lot more volatility in the market intermittency and optimise trading of hopes Ofgem replaces the existing Grid to access as many markets as and, even if it is not necessarily viable power produced, she said. benefits for storage with possible and then decide what to today it certainly will be in the future.” “We are building a lot more offshore “compensations to encourage offer,” she added. Carnegie Road took two years to wind and we require balancing flexibility”. Ensuring storage sites are complete after consent was granted services ourselves to balance our Until then, Eelpower is grappling prequalified and meet technical by Liverpool City Council in December production.” with how to make the numbers work compliance criteria such as grid 2016. The build programme took Last year, the company for standalone storage in an uncertain codes for the various markets is no around 12 months. It was overseen by commissioned a 2MW storage unit regulatory environment. “The two easy task, particularly around the EPC contractor NEC Energy solutions behind the meter at its 90MW anchors for projects are arbitrage balancing mechanism. with civils and cabling performed by Burbo Bank offshore wind farm in trading in the day-ahead and intra-day Orsted has acceded Carnegie Road subcontractor G2 Energy. Liverpool Bay. markets and FR/grid services.” to the balancing settlement code so it The site, which has room for an The lithium-ion batteries enable The ability for such projects to can be a balancing mechanism unit, extension, has three containers of Orsted to test the theory that storage attract debt finance, however, is a which required a generation licence. lithium-ion batteries provided by can improve the performance of concern in an “unproven market”. “It requires a great deal of effort to Korean manufacturer LG Chem. Burbo Bank 1. “We are very focused on get the full status as a big generating The Carnegie Road project is part of “We want to test if we can improve developing a business model that unit to enter the BM. We have done it Orsted’s vision of a world that runs production scheduling versus delivery attracts the lowest cost of capital, the hard way but we have created fully on green energy. and if the wind farm can provide black recognising there will not be any invaluable learning as a team so that “That does not just mean start services for the grid.” subsidy and nor should there be. we have full flexibility.” generation. The whole ecosystem The company has no plans to “It is a very profitable business Orsted will run the numbers to see needs to be green until the very last develop further energy storage sites showing good returns but not if battery storage units can compete point on the grid,” said Hartland- in the UK but is keeping a close eye on long-term contracts and that head on with other forms of Johnson. how balancing and other service requires senior debt providers to generation in the BM but Hartland- The “holy grail” for Orsted is markets evolve. take a different view.” Johnson is confident in the bigger co-location of offshore wind with “We want to prove that Carnegie Eelpower is building two Road can deliver first but we are standalone schemes — the 8MW CARNEGIE HAUL: Liverpool living involved in a lot of the market Stagstone in Cumbria and 10MW laboratory Photo: Orsted consultations,” said Hartland-Johnson. Winchester in Hampshire — both “National Grid’s Wider Access to due online by July. It also aims to Balancing Mechanism that sits behind bring online a further two unnamed Project Terre should make it much sites by the year-end at least, one in easier for smaller assets like storage Yorkshire and one in Teesside, with a to provide services.” combined capacity of 15.8MW. Although Hartland-Johnson is The company commissioned three frustrated by the smorgasbord of storage projects in 2018, including evolving market changes, she two 1.2MW schemes co-located with acknowledges them as a necessary small hydro plants in Yorkshire. part of a transition towards a smarter “The battery allows us to procure energy system. power cheaply to dispense at peak “The challenge is it is all happening times, sometimes as much as at the same time. I would like it to go a 80-90% of power feeding the battery bit faster but obviously there are is from the hydro.” n other issues clouding the horizon.” n 21 February 2019 ENERGY STORAGE 08 Councils hop on battery wagon to boost coffers

outh Somerset District Council retrofit existing council-owned wind Local authorities are will join the small but growing and farm assets with batteries, Hyman Sclub of UK local authorities to added. turning to storage to own operational storage sites when it West Sussex County Council is to flicks the switch on the 25MW Cricket pilot a project later this year to make more money St Thomas project next month. evaluate whether small battery The scheme near Taunton, which installations can work with existing from their land, writes consists of lithium-ion batteries solar systems at corporate buildings supplied by Chinese maker BYD, is in and schools. Robin Lancaster the final stages of installation ahead of The council did not provide any testing and operation by contractor WIRED UP: South Somerset further details at this time, adding only District Council’s battery scheme BSR Connect. that feasibility studies had been Photo: South Somerset District Council South Somerset said the impetus carried out at a number of sites. behind the £9.8m development is a It also has larger projects planned, need to make the most of its land to internal rate of return of around 14% including the up to 36MW Halewick generate new income streams, as its by delivering grid balancing services to Lane facility on top of 4MW central government grant funding has National Grid, he added. operational scheme at the 7.4MW fallen by 70% since 2010. South Somerset co-owns the 25MW Westhampnett solar farm. “The council is operating in a battery with project manager Opium Swindon Borough Council has set complex financial climate, where Power, which has hired storage up a wholly owned subsidiary between 2018 and 2022, it needs to aggregator Kiwi Power to prepare it company called Public Power deliver savings rising to £6m per year,” for bids for future energy contracts. Solutions (PPS) to help the public a spokesman said. Once operational, Cambridgeshire County Council is sector develop innovative power renews.biz the storage facility will provide an also considering energy storage to and waste projects, including make a better return from its assets. energy storage. The local authority is in the early The council is the only shareholder HEADLINE SPONSOR stages of developing two projects in in the initiative, which generates about partnership with Bouygues Energies £700,000 a year in Swindon alone for & Services: a 3MW standalone facility the council, said PPS head of power at Woodston and a 10MW scheme solutions Steve Cains. co-located with the 2.25MW The company has worked on an Stanground solar farm. under-development 50MW storage The council has yet to submit plant at Mannington, which is in the planning applications but expects the final stages of being sold to an projects to break ground in the undisclosed third party, he added. second half of 2020. “When construction has been Around £2.5m would be invested in completed, Swindon Borough Council Woodston and £9.7m in Stanground, will benefit from receiving a long-term with internal rates of return expected land rental on the project, which is to be 12.5% and 13.1% respectively, expected to have a lifespan of the council said. 30 years.” Cambridgeshire Council said part of PPS is working on other potential the motivation behind the projects is storage projects in the Swindon area to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. linked to electric vehicle charging and Regen chief executive Merlin Hyman solar, but Cains declined to give said local authorities are set to play an further details. increasing role in energy storage Regen’s Hyman said some of the development as the market becomes local authorities the organisation has more cost competitive. worked with are interested in This could include leasing land or developing local energy markets that being more actively involved through provide peer-to-peer trading and local owning and operating sites like South network balancing. Somerset and Cambridgeshire. “It is a way of retaining greater value “Local authorities have extensive locally and storage is likely to play a lanyard land and building assets and many still key role in any such more local sponsor have social housing that could approach to energy.” potentially see a role out of domestic Regen is also aware of local batteries,” he added. authorities in Cornwall, Devon and Energy storage could also provide Bristol considering or developing opportunities for local authorities to storage projects, he added. n 21 February 2019 ENERGY STORAGE 09

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demo site Highview runs with liquid asset ompressed air energy storage preparing to submit a bid in the ighview Power is looking at develop “gigawatt-scale” projects in the developer Storelectric plans to summer for funds covering up to 75% developing “a handful” of liquid US, Spain, Italy and the Middle East and Ckick off construction of its of the around €50m capex cost for Hair energy sites of around “fully commercialise” the technology. EU-backed 40MW Cheshire construction, which is expected to take 50MW providing five to 10 hours of “We are not waiting around – we demonstration project this year. 18 months. storage. “We have three projects at are coming to the market to help The Preston outfit is negotiating a The grant application for the early stages of planning in the UK and solve issues of intermittency and lack grant of around €10m from Brussels Cheshire scheme, which has been we believe two of them will move of active power when relying on wind, to fund the up to €20m development named as a project of common interest quite fast,” said chief executive Javier solar and batteries,” said Cavada. phase of the scheme near Middlewich. by the EU, is being supported by EY. Cavada. Details are being kept under Elsewhere, Newcastle University Storelectric director Tallat Azad said Civil engineer Costain and Finnish wraps until later this year, he added. has turned on its 150kW/600kWh it hopes to get the award next month utility Fortum carried out a technical The London developer inaugurated grid-scale pumped heat energy before submitting a planning validation of the concept, while Mott its 5MW/15MWh per-commercial, storage system, the first in the UK, application to Cheshire West Council MacDonald has been tasked with grid-connected demonstrator at the and the University of Sheffield expects in May. If the company is successful, evaluating the larger 500MW scheme. Pilsworth landfill site near Bury in its 1MW flywheel at its battery in the Connecting Europe Fund will cover German geotechnical engineer Lancashire last June. It is looking to Willenhall to go online next month. n phase two of the demonstrator, KBB Deep is studying potential including front-end engineering compressed air flow rates and design work plus consenting, offtake pressure of the Cheshire salt caverns and lease arrangements. for the demo. Siemens has modelled The project will use existing salt the system for how it could supply air caverns that offer a naturally hermetic compression, expansion and seal for storing compressed air. It is generation equipment. the prelude to a 500MW full-scale Storelectric estimates the round trip efficiency of the demo will be in the region of 63-64% and pegs the 500MW scheme at 67-68%. Azad is confident compressed air AND energy storage can play the same revenue stacking game as batteries EXPO CONFERENCE and is targeting four main areas: the capacity market; ancillary services; the 12 – 14 March 2019, Düsseldorf, Germany balancing mechanism; and arbitrage in the wholesale market. “The market is moving towards a The leading international trade merchant play – even in ancillary services – but, as time goes by, we will fair for energy storage systems make the numbers work purely from arbitrage,” he said. “Right now it cannot be done but, as more renewables TALLAT AZAD: Storelectric is come online and more fossil plant negotiating a £10m EU grant comes off, the off-peak power price will Photo: Storelectric naturally reduce to the marginal cost of renewables, which is around £10/MWh.” scheme earmarked for operations in The company is also discussions the mid-2020s. with EDF over collaborating on a similar Storelectric wants the 40MW demo project at the latter’s Hole House salt to be shovel ready by the autumn but caverns in southern Cheshire. whether building starts this year will “EDF is interested because it wants depend on not only planning consent to repurpose its salt caverns but also a separate grant for otherwise stranded due to gas storage www.ESEexpo.com construction. Azad said the company is being in the doldrums,” said Azad. n 21 February 2019 ENERGY STORAGE 10 Sharp approach needed for Irish tender

nergy storage developers in DS3 architecture to fit storage going through ECP, while RES Storage As the DS3 tender is Ireland are set to compete in the technologies. Ireland has four projects: the 9MW Ecountry’s first Delivering a Secure “The DS3 framework is Gorey in Wexford; the 8MW finally set to start, Sustainable System (DS3) tender by overengineered so a lot of the effort Moatstown in Kildare; the 16MW the summer after lengthy delays. has gone into simplifying it to come up Avonbeg in Wexford; and the 50MW developers scale The tender is due to take place in with something that works for storage Gorman in Meath. quarter two, having been pushed back and is intuitive for developers and Jones expects several projects to schemes to fit its from last September to enable more investors,” she added. take slices of the DS3 cake rather than consultation with industry and simplify The lengthy six-year contracts are a few large schemes gobbling up the 50MW cap, writes the framework. designed to provide investors with bulk of the up to 140MW. The volume-capped DS3 pay-as-bid revenue certainty and encourage the “There is a technical resilience Sian Crampsie tender will procure between 91MW use of new technologies in Ireland, argument — Eirgrid and SONI (System and 140MW of energy storage for according to the Single Electricity Operator for Northern Ireland) will be Ireland’s Integrated Single Electricity Market Committee. keen to have a distributed set of Market. The 50MW project size cap has Successful bidders will be offered forced developers to sharpen their six-year contracts for a bundle of pencils to participate in the DS3 “Although this is not explicitly frequency response and balancing tender as several projects in the services. Project size is capped at pipeline eyeing the juicy state-backed stated, you are more likely to 50MW with projects expected to go contracts exceed 100MW in capacity. live by September 2021. Those included two 100MW batteries create a market if you have a Partner at energy consultants proposed by Lumcloon Energy and Everoze Felicity Jones said Ireland’s backed by Korean firms Hanwha system operators and regulators have Energy and LSIS in Offaly and a 100MW larger number of providers” renews.biz been working on tailoring the complex site in Carlow proposed by Engie. Other projects that needed a shave IRISH BATTERY RUNNERS AND RIDERS FOR DS3 TENDER were two 110MW projects proposed projects in case of, for example, a by Greener Ideas, a joint venture plant breakdown,” she said. Location Developer MW between Centrica-owned Bord Gais “Although this is not explicitly Ardagh South, Meath Highfield Storage 33 Energy and Mountside Properties, at stated, you are also more likely to Avonbeg, Wexford RES Storage 16 Suir in Tipperary and Nore in Kilkenny. create a market if you have a larger The Nore project has been scaled number of providers.” Gardnershill, Dublin Flexilis Power 8.5 back to 40MW and is one of 15 battery Jones believes the DS3 tender, the Glencloosagh Phase 3, Kerry Glencloosagh Energy 30 energy storage projects registered first of its kind in Ireland, will be Gorey, Wexford RES Storage 9 under the Republic of Ireland’s new oversubscribed but competition will be ECP grid connection process. rationed by the ability to secure a grid Gorman, Meath RES Storage 50 Data from system operator Eirgrid connection to meet delivery milestones. Kilmannock, Wexford Grid System Services 30 show that these 15 projects total “Access to grid is a primary Knocknagoum, Kerry TBC 8 338MW. DS3 projects have been given constraint for the competition but Lisdrumdoagh, Monaghan Highfield Storage 60 priority under the ECP process and there is no shortage of interest, plenty grid connection offers are expected to of developers are keen to get a MCB Battery Storage, Mayo PWWP Developments 12 be disclosed in the coming weeks. contract,” she added. Moatstown, Kildare RES Storage 8 The schemes range in size from a Meeting milestones is not the only Nore, Kilkenny Greener Ideas 40 3MW battery at the Shranakilla Energy challenge; projects will have to meet Park in Mayo proposed by ESB Solar the world-leading speed of response Porterstown, Kerry Grid System Services 30 to a 60MW battery at Lisdrumdoagh in specification of three milliseconds. Rhode, Offaly Schwungrad Energie 20 Monaghan developed by Highfield “This really is a very striking feature Shranakilla, Mayo ESB Solar 3 Storage. of the regime and is without global Highfield also has a 33MW battery precedent. The technical challenge is TOTAL 357.5MW project at Ardagh South in Meath significant.”n

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Leclanche, which approached Enel FOUNDING FUEL: Enel Green The SCADA system can both and Enertrag with the idea of Power is to use its 22MW perform PCR services and manage the developing storage in a network with a Cremzow project in Brandenburg battery in concert with the wind farms to maximise wind output high penetration of wind. “connected” to it, added Gigliucci. Photo: Leclanché Enel and Enertrag will explore the Integration will involve coupling wind storage plant’s ability to reduce wind could offer from the Cremzow site. speed information with the battery generation imbalance and curtailment, “Then we will identify specific business storage control systems and by trading and to store surplus power for models for each service and we will wind and storage capacity on different injecting into the grid during peak decide together which services are energy and service demand times. really worth implementing,” Gigliucci markets. The project is also providing said. He believes other potential The battery is also 12 frequency regulation service to the primary control reserve market. Enel Green Power head of energy storage innovation Gianluca Gigliucci said: “This is our first project exploring the stacking of frequency regulation services and the integration of wind generation with storage, enhancing our knowledge and expertise in the Containerised Smart Energygy Reefers field of ‘renewables-plus-storage’. “It is also applicable to other Smart enerenergygy storastoragege solutions fforor ooptimisedptimised energyenergy projects Enel is developing globally.” consumptionmption and reduced costscosts.. Enel and Enertrag will also use the battery to identify other services it REDT looks towards a future that lasts longer than lithium deal signed by flow battery in the coming years. Construction of A supplier REDT indicates a new the first of the two 40MWh projects is German market opportunity to expected to start this year once a final provide storage for a longer duration investment decision has been reached. than traditional lithium-ion batteries. SCR, also known as automated The company’s exclusivity frequency response reserve, is usually agreement, signed last summer with a provided by ramping up generation reduced lower increased increased subsidiary of German developer from coal-fired power plants. The running toxic energy reliability WWF Solar, will deliver two grid-scale service, which needs up to four hours costs emissions energy storage projects to supply to charge or discharge, is intended to secondary control reserve (SCR), each maintain equilibrium between demand roughly 40MWh in capacity. and supply on the electrical network. The first 40MWh project will be built According to REDT chief executive in an unnamed location in central Scott McGregor, the 80MWh deal is [email protected] | +44 (0)208 879 1900 Germany and there are plans to roll equivalent to supplying 1% of the www.cargostore.com out a further 690MWh of projects potential market for SCR. n 21 February 2019 ENERGY STORAGE 12 integrated into GERMAN GROWTH Enertrag’s control 11 Online in 2018 systems. The 22MW project builds on a 2MW/3.2MWh pilot Project, location Developer MW Technology built for proof of concept, which has Bergedorf, Schleswig-Holstein Vattenfall 1 Lithium-ion battery been operational since April 2018. German renewables developers are Bremen heat reservoir, City of Bremen Swb, AEG 20 (battery) 230MWh heat Hybrid lithium-ion, power-to-heat looking increasingly closely at Bruck, Bad Hindelang, Oberallgau Enesto, Allgauer Uberlandwerk 1 Lithium-ion retrofitting projects with batteries to Brunsbuttel, Schleswig-Holstein Wind to Gas Energy 2.5 (battery), 2.4 (electrolyser) Lithium-ion, power-to-gas capitalise on rising wholesale power prices, according to RES. Dresden heat reservoir, Saxony Drewag, Stadtwerke Dresden 40 Power-to-heat Energy storage outfits noted strong EnspireME, Jardelund, Schleswig-Holstein Eneco, Mitsubishi 48 Lithium-ion battery interest from renewables project Hafenbatterie, various Vattenfall, BMW, Bosch 1 Lithium-ion battery owners as prices have climbed above €60 per megawatt-hour, levels that Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia RWE, Belectric 7 Lithium-ion battery have not been seen for more than Grossenhain, Meissen Frankfurt Energie 1 Lithium-ion battery six years. “We are seeing more Karoline, Karolinenviertal, Hamburg Vattenfall 45 Power-to-heat requests for quotes in Germany and some interesting concepts from Leipzig, Saxony Belectric 14 Lithium-ion battery potential customers wanting to Reuters, Berlin Vattenfall, SaltX 10MWh Thermal storage capture full use of renewable energy,” Schwabisch Hall, Baden-Wurttemberg Siemens 1 Lithium-ion battery said RES Germany storage head Mattias Leuthold. Stromspeicher Heilbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg EnBW, Bosch 5 Lithium-ion battery “They know energy storage can help Varel, Niedersachsen EWE Group, Hitachi, NGK 11.5 Lithium-ion, sodium-sulphur them achieve this,” he added. batteries Demand for co-located storage is Wunsiedel, Bavaria SWW Wunsiedel, Siemens 6 Lithium-ion battery also being driven by falling battery Wyhlen, Baden-Wurttemburg Energiedienst Holding 1 Power-to-gas costs spurred by growing demand for electric vehicles. Due to go live in 2019

ES installed its first grid-scale Cremzow, Brandenburg Enel, Enertrag 22 Lithium-ion battery Rbattery in Germany earlier this year TBC, eastern Germany Vestas 5 Lithium-ion battery for local utility Versorgungsbetriebe eFarm project, North Frisia GP Joule 1 Power-to-gas Bordesholm in Schleswig Holstein. The 10MW project is providing Hamburg, Hamburg Hamburg Energie, Siemens Gamesa 30MWh Thermal storage primary control reserve and will also TBC, Schleswig-Holstein RES, Versorgungsbetriebe Bordesholm 10 Lithium-ion battery demonstrate black-start functionality, a service hitherto provided by Slated for 2020 conventional power stations. BigBattery Lausitz, Brandenburg LEAG, Siemens 50 Lithium-ion battery The primary control reserve market TBC, central Germany WWF Solar, REDT 40MWh Vanadium redox flow battery continues to be the bread-and-butter revenue source for big grid batteries. Haurup, Schleswig-Holstein Energie des Nordens 1.25 Power-to-gas The largest of these — a 48MW Heat Reservoir Berlin-Spandau, Berlin Vattenfall 120MWh Power-to-heat system developed by Eneco and Mitsubishi in Jardelund, Schleswig- On the books for 2021 and beyond Holstein, which came online last year Ruhr, Lower Saxony TenneT 100 Power-to-gas — is set to be bettered by the LEAG Group’s 50MW BigBattery at the storing surplus output from BVES wants to encourage greenfield awaiting the outcome of a proposed Schwarze Pumpe coal plant in renewable generation in the region. and retrofit storage. It is calling for a amendment to the 2017 Renewable Brandenburg. Leuthold said the PCR market is cut in grid connection fees for plant in Energy Act. The €25m project in Lausitz, due shrinking as more battery outfits so-called grid-friendly locations and This could bring in innovation online in 2020, will provide frequency participate; about two-thirds of the believes projects hooked into existing auctions that would facilitate hybrid control in the PCR market as well as market is now accounted for by storage. transmission and distribution networks plants with both renewables and arbitrage trading in wholesale market, German energy storage association at substations should pay less. BVES is storage. n Power-to-gas lift-off to commercial reality erman grid operators are set to to be fed into the local natural gas grid the books is a 2MW electrolyser that is tune of around €125m. Haren is one Gplace a rocket under efforts to to supply hydrogen filling stations and part of a hybrid wind-storage power of two projects using P2G funding move power-to-gas projects from the for storage in underground caverns plant in Haren. The hydrogen will be under NEW 4.0. The other, Haurap H2, demonstration stage to commercial for industrial use. fed into the city‘s gas network, and will is building a 1.25MW electrolyser to reality. German grid operator Amprion and also be supplied to filling stations. convert surplus wind power into TenneT and gas industry companies gas grid outfit Open Grid Europe have The project is supported by the hydrogen for the local gas network. Thyssengas and Gasunie Deutschland plans to build P2G plants of between NEW 4.0 – Norddeutsche In North Frisia, GP Joule is are to build a 100MW P2G plant to 50-100MW. EnergieWende (Northern German developing a 1MW P2G project turn renewable power into gas for According to local development Energy Transition) initiative, a network comprising five electrolysers at industrial use in Ruhr in Lower Saxony. agency Cluster Nordrhein-Westfalen, of 60 partners in Hamburg and separate wind farms that will convert The facility will be connected to the P2G plants with a total capacity Schleswig-Holstein, covering the surplus generation into hydrogen for grid in phases starting from 2022. It exceeding 21MW are in operation in energy industry’s entire value chain. two filling stations. Energiedienst has will convert surplus power from wind Germany, with at least a dozen more The Federal Ministry of Economics installed an electrolyser in Grenzach- farms and other sources into hydrogen projects under construction. Also on and Energy is funding NEW 4.0 to the Wyhlen Baden-Württemberg. n 21 February 2019 ENERGY STORAGE 13 Major activity for France at home and overseas

rance is entering a new battery mainland France will be spread out end of June. It is choosing a battery Mainland gets its era with storage-only tenders over the next three years. provider and will be investing between Fbeing held in its overseas NW Groupe has signed deals with €200m and €300m in the projects. first multi-megawatt territories and the first multi-megawatt grid operator RTE for roughly half of A first 1MW projects springing up on the mainland. the projects and is hoping to secure demonstrator, called project and territory French developer Neoen will this the remaining contracts before the NWJ Box (pictured), was 14 month commission the 6MW Azur tenders pick up pace, Stockage project in the southwest department of Landes. writes Lisa Louis Turnkey contractor Nidec ASI is in the final stages of installing the lithium-ion batteries, control systems and switchgear for the scheme that will provide primary reserve to help balance the French grid. The Italian company is also in charge of operation and maintenance of Neoen’s project. Another French developer, NW Groupe, is thinking bigger. It aims to install 200 1MW lithium-ion batters across the country to provide balancing services. THINK BIG: NW Group’s 1MW NWJ Box battery storage Commissioning of the batteries at demonstrator in Jonzac Photo: NW Group renews.biz as-yet undisclosed locations on

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recently connected to 13 the grid in Jonzac FRENCH CONNECTIONS municipality in the Online in 2018 department of Charente-Maritime. Project, location Developer MW Technology Battery storage development in France’s overseas territories, Batrun/Saint Leu, Réunion EDF SEI 5 Lithium-ion battery meanwhile, continues apace. Giurone, Corsica Corsica Sole 7.5MWh Lithium-ion battery Last October, the French GPMDLR, Réunion Albioma 1.3 Lithium-ion battery government selected 11 lithium-ion battery projects from 46 in the NWJ Box, Jonzac, Charente-Maritime* NW Groupe 1 Lithium-ion battery country’s maiden storage-only tender. The bulk of the projects will be Due to go live in 2019 commissioned this year but some, Azur Stockage, Les Landes* Neoen 6 Lithium-ion battery including Corsica Sole‘s 5MW Prato in Cayenne, French Guiana Genergies Antilles Guyanes 1.1 Lithium-ion battery Corsica and 5MW Cratere in Réunion, will be online in 2020. The schemes in Casaperta, Corsica Corsica Sole 2.2MWh Lithium-ion battery Corsica, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Carriere Giuncaggio, Corsica Corsica Sole 7.5MWh Lithium-ion battery Martinique and Réunion will be run for Eole La Montagne, Guadeloupe Quadran Groupe Direct Energies 2 Lithium-ion battery up to 25 years and receive a total of €80m in public funding. Fonds Caraibes, Guadeloupe Quadran Groupe Direct Energie 5 Lithium-ion battery Energy watchdog CRE estimates the Gress, Martinique NW Groupe 4 Lithium-ion battery country will save a total of €450m, Gua 1 – St Francois, Guadeloupe NW Groupe 1 Lithium-ion battery with the batteries connected to the islands‘ grids to balance intermittent Gua 2 – St Francois, Guadeloupe NW Groupe 1 Lithium-ion battery renewables generation. Guy 1 – Remire-Montjoly, French Guiana NW Groupe 1 Lithium-ion battery A second storage-only tender was Kiss/Baie Mahault, Guadeloupe EDF SEI 5 Lithium-ion battery launched last July for the island of La Perriere 2, Reunion Quadran Groupe Direct Energie 3.3 Lithium-ion battery Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. The government is expected to select La Perriere 3, Reunion Quadran Groupe Direct Energie 3.8 Lithium-ion battery projects with a total capacity of around LGDG SUN, Guadeloupe Systeko, Urbasolar 1.12 Lithium-ion battery 50MW. Bidders have until 17 April to LGDM SUN, Martinique Systeko, Urbasolar 1.4 Lithium-ion battery submit offers, which need a grid connection offer to be eligible. They Mana Report, French Guiana Voltalia 5 Lithium-ion battery will be ranked by cost effectiveness. Mana Reserve, Guadeloupe Voltalia 5 Lithium-ion battery An additional round for Mayotte is Mascareignes 1 & 2, Reunion Quadran Groupe Direct Energie 1.4 Lithium-ion battery planned for the second half of 2020. The tenders will boost storage Nordev, Reunion Quadran Groupe Direct Energie 1.4 Lithium-ion battery development in France‘s overseas Novagrid/Le Lamentin, Martinique EDF SEI 5 Lithium-ion battery territories where battery projects with PAI SUN, Martinique Systeko, Urbasolar 1.13 Lithium-ion battery a total capacity of at least 90MW are scheduled to go online this year. P3I SUN, Martinique Systeko, Urbasolar 1.3 Lithium-ion battery Corsica Sole, which won France‘s Pancheraccia, Corsica Corsica Sole 6MWh Lithium-ion battery first storage-only tender, is planning Pascialone, Corsica Corsica Sole 2.2MWh Lithium-ion battery on bidding in all upcoming tenders. “The government finally seems to Pierrefonds 1, Reunion Quadran Groupe Direct Energie 3.5 Lithium-ion battery have realised what a good solution Pierrefonds 2, Reunion Quadran Groupe Direct Energie 1 Lithium-ion battery storage devices are to level out Pierrefonds 3, Reunion Quadran Groupe Direct Energie 3.3 Lithium-ion battery electricity prices over time,” said its director general Michael Coudyser. Petit Canal, Guadeloupe EDF Renouvelables 2.8 Lithium-ion battery The company has in the past been Sainte-Rose (solar), Guadeloupe Albioma, Energipole 3.3 Lithium-ion battery selected with several projects in Sainte-Rose (wind), Guadeloupe Valorem 5.5 Lithium-ion battery France‘s three bidding rounds for the co-location of solar and storage. Savanes des Peres,French Guiana Voltalia 2.6 Lithium-ion battery Storage-only tenders speed up Stade de l’Est, Reunion Albioma 1.3 Lithium-ion battery development as it is easier and SCEA Isabelle, Reunion Apex Energies 1.6 Lithium-ion battery cheaper to construct battery projects Segur, Martinique Apex Energies 1.5 Lithium-ion battery than co-located sites, he added. Montpellier-based Apex Energies is Terre de Bas, Guadeloupe Quadran Groupe Direct Energie 3 Lithium-ion battery also taking part in the Mayotte tender and the solar-storage tender for the Slated for 2020 overseas territories, which is due to Cratere, Reunion Corsica Sole 5 Lithium-ion battery be launched within weeks. “There is clearly a storage boom in Desvarieux, Guadeloupe NW Groupe 4.2 Lithium-ion battery the pipeline – even if it has not fully La Piemontaire, Reunion NW Groupe 1 Lithium-ion battery kicked off just yet,” said head of Madinina, Martinique Akuo Energy 12 Lithium-ion battery innovation and performance Montjoly 2, French Guiana NW Groupe 4.35 Lithium-ion battery Alexandre Volpato. “People now understand that Pernicaggio-B, Corsica NW Groupe 1.5 Lithium-ion battery batteries can reduce renewables Prato, Corsica Corsica Sole 5 Lithium-ion battery projects‘ grid connection costs and Toucan 2, French Guiana EDF Renouvelables 3.3 Lithium-ion battery primary reserve storage devices can stabilise the main grid,” he added. n * Projects in mainland France 21 February 2019 ENERGY STORAGE 15 Italy leads on large schemes in bid for reliable electricity taly has emerged as a pioneer of large-scale energy storage in Europe Pilot projects to Ias national grid operator Terna launches a series of pilot programmes address rising to combat growing system instability. Terna has implemented three instability in the schemes that aim to integrate energy MARKET OPENER: Wartsila’s 6MW LG Chem battery storage system storage into the grid to provide with the Sinergy Kft gas plant in Budapest, Hungary Photo: Wartsila energy system, writes frequency control and other ancillary services. installation that went online late last engine-plus-storage hybrid installation Sian Crampsie The UVAP programme, which kicked year. Enel intends to add a single last year in Budapest in Hungary off last year, allows small-generation 10MW extension this year, followed by (pictured). and storage units to participate in the two more 20MW battery installations The 6MW/4MWh LG Chem batteries ancillary services market. at the same site within the next three were integrated at an existing Sinergy A second scheme, UVAM, which years. Kft plant comprising three Wartsila began last month, creates virtual power Adding batteries to the coal-fired engines. plants through aggregating small power plant optimises its ability to The installation enables the plant’s distributed generation, energy storage respond to fluctuations in the grid and operator to participate in Hungary’s systems and electric vehicle batteries. improve financial performance, said primary and secondary frequency The third project, UPI, which also Enel, which has installed a similar regulation markets. started at the beginning of the year, project at its Carboneras coal power Other efforts to integrate storage enables power generators with station in Spain. technology into existing generation integrated storage capacity to supply include a €3m project to install a primary frequency control to the grid. innish gas engine maker Wartsila 5MW/6.2MWh battery at Fortum’s National electricity association believes installing batteries at Forshuvud hydro plant on the Elettricità Futura said UPI should result Ffossil fuel plants allows operators Dalalven river in Sweden. in at least 60MW of energy storage to future-proof the assets against The battery will be the largest in the installations by 2022. regulatory change. Nordic region to date and will provide The capacity will go live at Enel’s “One of the biggest risks in the frequency regulation services. Torrevaldaliga Nord coal-fired power energy business is political risk and Construction of the battery is plant in the city of Civitavecchia. This regulatory changes but energy scheduled to start by summer this renews.biz started with a 10MW battery management systems can year, said Fortum head of hydro asset accommodate changes very quickly management Martin Lindstrom. EUROPEAN EXAMPLES through software upgrades,” said “The battery’s very quick response Wartsila director of energy storage time improves the speed and Online in 2018 and integration Risto Paldanius. precision of the Forshuvud Project, location Developer MW Technology He added: “This prevents assets hydropower plant, so we are able to Budapest, Hungary Alteo 6 Lithium-ion battery from becoming stranded.” provide an even better service to grid Wartsila delivered its first gas companies,” he added. n Carboneras, Spain Endesa 20 Lithium-ion battery Cars Den Stadium, Alfen 0.75 Lithium-ion battery Netherlands Puurs, Belgium Eneco 2 Lithium-ion battery Leclanche ready for high life Sello, Finland Sello Mall 1.6 Lithium-ion battery emand for battery storage in Germany will reach its tipping point, the continent is set to explode, probably in 2021-22, and the rest of Seraing, Belgium CMI 2.2 Lithium-ion, flow batteries Daccording to Swiss lithium-ion Europe will follow soon after.” Terhills, Belgium LRM 18 Lithium-ion battery battery maker Leclanche, due to a At present, however, the company Torrevaldaliga Nord, Italy Enel 10 Lithium-ion battery coming need for balancing services to is “not very bullish” about the manage renewables output flow. European market owing to the Tudela, Spain Acciona 1 Lithium-ion battery The company said Europe will lack of opportunities for balancing reach a “tipping point” as the portion services. Due to go live in 2019 of renewables in the power “On the continent. there are strong Bystra, Poland Energa 6 Lithium-ion, lead acid generation mix grows and as coal grid ties and the resilience of the grid batteries and nuclear power plants are retired. is much greater than it is in the UK, Caravaca, Spain Iberdrola Distribucion 1.25 Lithium-ion battery “Countries like Germany cannot for example, and so there is not the Forshuvud, Sweden Fortum 5 Lithium-ion battery continue to borrow baseload from same need for energy storage when Poland and pretend to be green,” it comes to balancing the market,” Torrevaldaliga Nord, Italy Enel 10 Lithium-ion battery said Leclanché chief executive he added. Anil Srivastava. “In addition, the generation mix is Expected online in 2020 He added: “When German offshore well balanced, with hydropower, coal University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Cyprus 10 tbc wind capacity reaches 20GW, and nuclear.” n 21 February 2019 ENERGY STORAGE 16 US regulatory shift gives go-ahead to gigawatts S developers are gearing up for positions and planning projects based FERC recognises a major regulatory change that “Not only does it show state on what they see coming out of Uis expected to unlock several regulatory filings. growing role for gigawatts of utility-scale storage in key “There is a high level of expectation wholesale markets. commissioners see energy that PJM Interconnection, NYISO, and storage in energy Regional grid operators have until ISO New England (ISO-NE) will remove 3 December to comply with the storage as important and barriers and level the playing field, so markets, writes Federal Energy Regulatory as not to obstruct the policy objectives Commission’s Order 841, which aims viable, it also shows utilities of the states they serve,” said US Sara Verbruggen to standardise participation of energy Energy Storage Association research storage in the bulk power system. should be considering and programs director Tom Simchak. Massachusetts consultancy Brattle Simchak pointed to another Group said the change could open up storage as they plan to meet national-level win for storage: the around 7GW of storage potential on National Association of Regulatory the energy and ancillary services Utility Commissioners recently passed markets run by the six FERC-regulated future energy needs” a resolution for storage to be included grid operators in the US. in power sector forward planning. Those include the California “Since NARUC’s membership is Independent System Operator and made up of the state commissioners the New York Independent System Arizona, and FERC Order 841 will give who review utilities’ plans, it is a big Operator (NYISO). these types of utility-scale storage deal,” he added. Mike Wietecki, general counsel at facilities an equal footing with any “Not only does it show that they see US energy storage system provider other power plant,” he added. energy storage as an important and Powin, said Order 841 is significant Powin is targeting 150-200MWh of viable part of the electricity network as it recognises energy storage is no commissioned projects in North but also that utilities should be longer a minority component of America this year, mostly in Ontario considering storage as they plan to the grid. and California. meet future energy needs.” “Commercial deployments are Developers were said to be California continues to lead the renews.biz increasing in size, multiple megawatt preparing for the rule change by US pack with its energy storage plants are happening in California and reserving interconnection queue ambitions in the short term, which include 500MW of behind-the-meter storage, in addition to its 1325MW by 2020 target. New York State is catching up with the Golden State, however, by setting a 3GW target by 2030 backed by a $350m incentive programme. The Empire State is also examining the role of energy storage to replace retiring peaking generation. Massachusetts, meanwhile, has set a target of 1GWh by 2025 and has included a storage incentive in its new Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) incentive programme. Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities issued two orders, one for net metering for solar-plus-storage projects and another that clarifies capacity ownership rights of such projects. For developers, having capacity ownership to dispatch a generator or storage resource allows access to a new revenue stream in the ISO-NE capacity market. New Jersey recently SKY’S THE LIMIT: Eon has integrated its 20MW Texas Waves battery projects with its Pyron and Inadale wind signed into law a 2GW farms Photo: Eon by 2030 goal, while 17 21 February 2019 ENERGY STORAGE 17

GROWN IN THE USA Salisbury, Maryland Convergent E&P 1 Lithium-ion battery San Antonio, Texas CPS Energy 10 Lithium-ion battery Online in 2018 San Diego Zoo, California EDF 1 Lithium-ion battery Project, location Developer MW Technology San Juan Capistrano, California SDG&E 4 Lithium-ion battery Alpha, New Jersey Ormat Technologies 20 Lithium-ion battery Saratoga, New York Key Capture Energy 20 Lithium-ion battery Beacon Solar, California LADWP/Doosan 20 Lithium-ion battery Gridtech Buck-Byllesby, Virginia Greensmith/AEP 4 Lithium-ion battery Slated for 2020 Charlotte County, Florida NextEra 10 Lithium-ion battery Acorn, California EsVolta 6.5 Lithium-ion battery Colony Farm, Kalamazoo, Michigan Doosan Gridtech 1 Lithium-ion battery Bethel, Texas Apex 317 Compressed air DeSoto County, Florida NextEra 4 Lithium-ion battery Calstor BTM, California EDF for PG&E 10 Lithium-ion battery East Hampton, New York NextEra 5 Lithium-ion battery Desert Harvest 2, California EDF 35 Lithium-ion battery Firestone, Colorado United Power/Engie 4 Lithium-ion battery Escondido, California Powin 2.6 Lithium-ion battery Iowa Powin 1 Lithium-ion battery Henrietta, California Convergent E&P 10 Zinc air IPP project, California RES 40 Lithium-ion battery Johanna, California Hecate Energy 15 Lithium-ion battery Kingsbery, Texas Austin Energy 1.5 Lithium-ion battery Moss Landing Power Plant, Vistra Energy 300 Lithium California Lemoore, California Convergent E&P 10 Lithium-ion battery New York Peak Power Energy 2.82MWh Lithium-ion battery Marengo, Illinois Glidepath 20 Lithium-ion battery Quarantina, California EsVolta 10 Lithium-ion battery Mt. Tom, Massachusetts Engie 3 Lithium-ion battery San Diego Airport, California San Diego Airport/DH 2 Lithium-ion battery Orange County, California Convergent E&P 35 Lithium-ion battery Green Energy Otis microgrid, Massachusetts Raytheon 1.6 Lead-acid Stanton, California Stanton Energy 20 Lithium-ion battery Pinal Energy Center, Arizona NextEra 10 Lithium-ion battery Reliability Center Plumsted Township, New Jersey Ormat Technologies 20 Lithium-ion battery Wildcat, California EsVolta 3 Lithium-ion battery Punkin Center, Arizona Fluence 2 Lithium-ion battery Wilmot, Arizona Tucson Electric 30 Lithium-ion battery Redstone Arsenal, Alabama Sunpower 1 Lithium-ion battery Sterling, Massachusetts Origis Energy 1 Lithium-ion battery Coming in 2021 and beyond Texas Waves, Texas Eon 20 Lithium-ion battery Alamitos, California SCE 100 Lithium-ion battery Upton County, Texas Luminant 2 Lithium-ion battery Big Beau, California EDF 40 Lithium-ion battery Cascade, California PG&E 25 Lithium-ion battery Scheduled to go live in 2019 Diablo, California PG&E 50 Lithium-ion battery Asheville, North Carolina Duke Energy 9 Lithium-ion battery Escondido, California SDG&E 6.5 Lithium-ion battery Barking Sands PMRF, Hawaii AES 14 Lithium-ion battery Fallbrook, California SDG&E 40 Lithium-ion battery Camp Atterbury, Indiana Doosan Gridtech 5 Lithium-ion battery Hale Kuawehi, Hawaii Hawaiian Electric 30 Lithium-ion battery Chandler, Arizona Fluence, Salt River 10 Lithium-ion battery Hoohana, Hawaii Hawaiian Electric 52 Lithium-ion battery Project Hummingbird, California esVolta and Powin 75 Lithium-ion battery Fort Carson, Colorado AECOM 4.25 Lithium-ion battery Joint Base, Texas Ameresco 4 Lithium-ion battery Hot Springs, North Carolina Duke Energy 4 Lithium-ion battery Kingston, California PG&E 50 Lithium-ion battery Knoxville, Iowa MidAmerican Energy 1 Lithium-ion battery Kuihelani Solar, Hawaii Hawaiian Electric 60 Lithium-ion battery Lawai, Hawaii KUIC 20 Lithium-ion battery Maricopa County, Arizona First Solar 50 Lithium-ion battery Miramar, California SDG&E 30 Lithium-ion battery Mililani I Solar, Hawaii Hawaiian Electric 39 Lithium-ion battery Montauk, New York NextEra 5 Lithium-ion battery Paeahu Solar, Hawaii Hawaiian Electric 15 Lithium-ion battery Mueller, Austin Austin Energy 1.75 Lithium-ion battery Phoenix, Arizona Salt River Project 25 Lithium-ion battery Nabb, Indiana Duke Energy/Doosan 5 Lithium-ion battery Gridtech Poway, California Enel for SDG&E 3 Lithium-ion battery Newbury, California Powin 2.6 Lithium-ion battery Santa Barbara, California Powin for SCE 10 Lithium-ion battery New York Peak Power Energy 5.64MWh Lithium-ion battery Sierra, California PG&E 10 Lithium-ion battery New York Powin 1 Lithium-ion battery tbc, California PG&E 20 Lithium-ion battery North Carolina Powin 1 Lithium-ion battery Waiawa Solar, Hawaii Hawaiian Electric 36 Lithium-ion battery Palm Springs, California Powin 4.5 Lithium-ion battery Waikoloa Solar, Hawaii Hawaiian Electric 30 Lithium-ion battery

Nevada has planning, sources said. The biggest while Northern Indiana Public Service comprising 1048MWh of batteries, 16 determined a target is procurement announcements so far Company is to build 92MW. secure contracts ranging at prices of in the public interest include Xcel Colorado with 275MW of Hawaiian Electric said solar-plus- $0.08-0.12 per kilowatt-hour. and is now in the process of four-hour duration storage and storage now outcompetes technology Electricity from fossil plant on developing it. Hawaiian Electric with 255MW of that is based on fossil fuels for the islands of Hawaii islands costs Utilities in more than a dozen four-hour duration storage. providing dispatchable power. around $0.15/kWh, according to states are now eyeing storage sites Nevada Energy is to develop A recent tender saw seven Hawaiian Electric spokesman through their long-term procurement 100MW of four-hour duration storage solar-plus-storage projects, Peter Rosegg. n 21 February 2019 ENERGY STORAGE 18 Peak shaving gain for Ontario businesses to bring boost to behind-meter batteries

eak shaving opportunities for 108MWh of which is C&I installations storage are booming in the solely in Ontario with the rest over PCanadian province of Ontario as the border in New York state. businesses look to avoid rising Convergent E&P brought online its demand charges imposed by the first customer-sited battery for GA regional grid operator. mitigation/peak shaving in Ontario last The Independent Electricity System year. The system comprises a Operator’s global adjustment (GA) 4.2MW/8.5MWh installation at Husky charges, a levy on commercial and Injection Molding Systems, a large industrial (C&I) energy users’ bills, industrial plant. have roughly doubled in recent years The developer followed that with a to become the most expensive in second Ontario project installed last North America. summer: a 10MW/20MWh battery at a However, the demand spike petrochemical company in Sarnia to coincided with the provincial reduce GA charges. government’s extension of eligibility to Canadian developers continue to participate in IESO’s Industrial develop and commission energy Conservation Initiative. storage projects that qualified for Energy users with a minimum of IESO’s 50MW grid energy storage 500kW monthly average peak load procurement programme earlier can now participate in the ICI, which this decade. STEERING GROUP: Powin Energy supplied Mexico’s first major battery was set up to allow very large The first 33.54MW phase of the storage plant Photo: Powin Energy energy users to opt into demand programme, launched in 2014, response programmes, reduce their contracted for the provision of launched in 2015, resulted in some projects are slower to get off the demand in peak hours and avoid frequency regulation, reactive 16.75MW of capacity being awarded. ground except for those in the most GA charges. support and voltage control services One of those projects, a 1.75MW remote sites and communities. The expansion of IESO’s ICI has in Ontario. compressed air energy storage In Brazil, NEC Energy Storage has opened the floodgates for behind-the- Hecate Energy and battery storage system supplied by Hydrostor and supplied a battery system for a small meter storage, industry sources said. system provider Powin together won developed by NRStor, is due in service microgrid on the diesel-dependent Peak Power business development over 14MW of capacity and last year this year. islands of Fernando de Noronha off manager Lucy Fan said the company commissioned the 8.8MW Stratford the north-east coast. has a pipeline of around 116MWh of and 2MW Kitchener. n Latin America storage is still finding In the Caribbean, Fluence is storage projects out to 2020, some Phase two of the programme, Iits feet but the rise of renewables to providing a 5MW battery for a floating supply the power-hungry needs of CANADA QUEUE growing economies is offering Online in 2018 opportunities. “Mexico has set ambitious Project, location Developer MW Technology Notable projects in the region include Mexico’s first major battery Basin 1 & 2, Ontario Deltro Energy, Leclanché 28 Lithium-ion battery goals for reducing carbon storage plant installed at a microgrid Bolton, Ontario Convergent E&P 4.2 Lithium-ion battery serving an international automotive emissions, targeting 35% of Guelph, Ontario Convergent E&P 5 Flywheel company’s factory near Monterrey in 2018. Kitchener, Ontario Powin/Hecate Energy 2 Lithium-ion battery The microgrid uses a 12MW/12MWh energy from clean energy Ontario C&I BTM Peak Power Energy 1.88MWh Lithium-ion battery battery storage system supplied by Ontario C&I NRStor 2 Lithium-ion battery Powin to provide a stable power sources by 2035 and 50% supply should its on-site gas Sarnia, Ontario Convergent E&P 10 Lithium-ion battery generation suffer an outage. by 2050” Sault Ste Marie, Ontario Convergent E&P 7 Lithium-ion battery GE said that it is working on Stratford, Ontario Powin/Hecate Energy 8.8 Lithium-ion battery early-stage microgrid projects in Toronto, Ontario Hecate Energy 4 Lithium-ion battery Mexico. power plant in the Dominican The country has set ambitious goals Republic developed by Siemens and for reducing carbon emissions, ST Engineering. Due to go live in 2019 targeting 35% of energy from clean The Fluence battery will be Berry Global BTM, Ontario Enel 5 Lithium-ion battery energy sources by 2035 and 50% integrated into Siemens’ hybrid gas Goderich, Ontario NRStor 1.75 Compressed air by 2050. generation and energy storage system Chile leads the region in terms of to provide frequency regulation and Milton, Ontario Baseload Power 2 Flow battery installed energy storage capacity with enable the plant to operate at full New Market, Ontario Ameresco 4 Lithium-ion battery the 110MW Cerro Dominador molten capacity at high fuel efficiency. Ontario Peak Power Energy 4.82MWh Lithium-ion battery salt solar thermal project expected to Siemens will provide a combined enter operation this year. cycle power plant with a 145MW Slated for 2020 Small-scale renewables projects capacity, with ST Engineering building incorporating batteries have been a a floating barge to host it. The Estrella Loyalist, Ontario Hecate Energy 30 Lithium-ion battery feature of Chile’s mining sector in del Mar 3 project is due to go online in Ontario Peak Power Energy 103.67MWh Lithium-ion battery recent years but the utility-scale Santo Domingo in spring 2021. n 21 February 2019 ENERGY STORAGE 19 ADVANTAGE ASIA Governments Online in 2018 Project, location Developer MW Technology Chungchoeng, South Korea Korea Midland Power 13 Lithium-ion battery set out policy to Gunsan, South Korea OCI 51MWh Lithium-ion battery Jinjiang, Fujian Province, China CATL 100MWh Lithium-ion battery Tokunoshima Island, Japan Mifune 2 Lithium-ion battery put batteries on Tomakomai, Japan Green Power Development 10MWh Lithium-ion battery Due to go live in 2019 Asia energy map Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India NLC India 28MWh Lithium-ion battery Dalian, China UniEnergy Technologies 200 Vanadium flow battery ndia is in the final stages of Changsha, China BYD 10 Lithium-ion battery India, China, Japan approving a National Energy Storage IMission to help it keep pace with Gansu demonstration, China tbc 720MWh tbc and South Korea renewables growth, grid access Golmud, China CATL 100MWh Lithium-ion battery targets and expected demand for Hubei Zaoyang demonstration, Hubei Pingfan 3 Vanadium flow battery opening door to electric vehicles. China The NESM will help India develop an Rohini, India Tata Power 10 Lithium-ion battery indigenous battery industry as well as storage, writes Seosan, South Korea Hyundai 130MWh Lithium-ion battery spur innovation and the use of energy Sian Crampsie storage in several industries, Suzuran Kushiro-cho, Japan Green Power Development 25MWh Lithium-ion battery according to the India Energy Storage Ulsan, South Korea Korea Zinc 150 Lithium-ion battery Alliance. Deployment of grid-scale energy Slated for 2020 storage in India has yet to take off but Tbc, Andhra Pradesh, India IL&FS Energy Development 10 tbc IESA believes the market will grow to Changwon, South Korea SK E&S 70MWh tbc more than 300GWh over the next Goesan, South Korea Macquarie 35MWh tbc seven years. Battery deployment in India has Gonghe, China Huanghe Hydropower 45 tbc been held up by falling wind and solar Kaza, India SECI 1 tbc costs, a key factor in a number of Kushiro-cho, Japan Smart Solar 14MWh tbc renewable energy tender Lakshadweep Islands, India SECI tbc tbc cancellations in the past 12 months. The Solar Energy Corporation of Ramagiri, India SECI tbc tbc India, however, issued a tender last Wulan, China Huanghe Hydropower 10 tbc September for its first solar-wind Yakumo solar park, Japan SoftBank 27MWh Lithium-ion battery hybrid project with battery storage, a 160MW project at Ramagiri in Andhra Scheduled for 2022 Pradesh. Magat hydropower plant, SN Aboitiz Power 20 tbc The tender followed publication of Philippines India’s National Wind-Solar Hybrid Saemangeum, South Korea SDIA 100 tbc Policy, which sets an ambitious target of achieving 175GW of installed Proposed for 2023 capacity from renewables by March Hokkaido, Japan North Hokkaido Energy 240 Lithium-ion battery 2022, including 100GW of solar and Transmission 60GW of wind. Developers bidding for hybrid proposals to reduce variability in address grid instability and renews.biz projects can include storage in their output and optimise project designs. renewables curtailment include plans The Ministry of New and Renewable for a 100MWh storage facility in Energy plans to put 60GW of solar Jinjiang in Fujian Province by CATL, and 20GW of wind out to tender by which has the potential to be March 2020. expanded to 500MWh and 1GWh. CATL said it had completed a ational and regional policies are 100MWh lithium-ion battery last Nalso helping to drive growth of month at the 650MW Luneng Haixi large-scale energy storage capacity in Multi-Mixed energy demonstration China. project in Golmud. At the end of 2017, Beijing issued a Chinese regulators in Gansu national policy document providing province, meanwhile, have approved guidance on energy storage, including plans for a 720MWh lithium-ion policy framework proposals and key battery due for completion in 2019. development tasks. The plant could be expanded Several regional energy storage depending on the needs of the grid, policies have emerged since then, regulators said. including for the Jiangsu province as Lithium-ion batteries accounted well as for grid areas in southern and for 99% of new METAL HEAD: South Korea’s Hyundai Electric 150MW lithium-ion northern parts of China. installations in 2018, battery system for metal smelter Korea Zinc in Ulsan Photo: Hyundai Electric Projects to come forward to according to the 20 21 February 2019 ENERGY STORAGE 20

STORAGE TO COME: Al Badiya China Energy Storage solar plant in Jordan 19 Alliance, which puts Photo: Philadelphia Solar the country’s total operational battery storage at 650MW. The Chinese government has, however, recognised the value of flow batteries, which can provide power for a longer duration than the one-to-four hours typical of lithium-ion chemistries. VRB recently commissioned a 3MW/12MWh vanadium redox battery in Zaoyang, Hubei, the first phase of a proposed 10MW/40MWh that could be ultimately expanded to 100MW/500MWh as part of national energy storage targets. In the city of Dalian in Liaoning province, UniEnergy Technologies is building a 200MW/800MWh vanadium flow battery system. Middle East makes move to n Japan, the Fifth Strategic Energy IPlan has committed the country to making solar PV a mainstream storage for stronger security power source and is set to drive the uptake of large-scale storage iddle Eastern nations are Maktoum solar park, the largest technology. United Arab Emirates making increasing forays into single-site PV project in the world. In December, Chiyoda Mgrid-scale energy storage to Jordan has entered the storage fray Corporation said it was going to is leading the way as reduce reliance on fossil fuels, meet to complement its growing solar PV build a 240MW/720MWh lithium-ion energy demand and improve capacity, currently at 800MW and battery for Hokkaido Wind Energy region shifts to energy security. forecast to rise to around 3.6GW by Transmission Corporation. The United Arab Emirates is leading 2021. Philadelphia Solar told renews it Chiyoda will carry out EPC, while renewables the way with some of the largest has started commissioning a 12.6MWh GS Yuasa will design and supply the battery projects in the world, including lithium-ion storage system at an batteries for the project due online a giant 108MW/648MWh scheme 11MW solar extension of its 12MW Al in 2023, which will be located at a developed by Abu Dhabi Water and Badiya PV farm in Jordan (pictured). substation in Toyotomi-cho in Electricity Authority. The Jordanian government, Hokkaido prefecture. The state utility flicked the switch meanwhile, has launched bidding for “This battery energy storage last month on the scheme, which is the construction of 30MW/60MWh of system project will contribute to dispersed over 10 locations, to create storage at a substation in Ma’an. solving power system restrictions in a virtual power plant capable of Energy consultancy Wood the area and provide a stable power providing grid balancing services and Mackenzie expects solar-plus-storage supply for further development of backup power. to play a major role in the region’s wind power generation,” the The sodium sulphur batteries, market due to falling equipment costs. company said. provided by Japanese manufacturer The company forecasts solar-plus- Energy storage in South Korea is NGK, are able to operate at higher storage will be competitive with being driven by the country’s temperatures more efficiently than combined cycle gas turbine capacity renewable energy policy, which sets lithium-ion cells. on a levelised cost of energy basis by out targets for renewable generation Dubai Electricity and Water 2023 in some of the region’s major of reaching 20% by 2030 and for Authority, meanwhile, completed a power markets, including the UAE, battery systems to expand from pilot project to test a 1.2MW/7.2MWh Jordan, Morocco and South Africa. 400MW in 2017 to 1GW in 2030. sodium sulphur battery last year at Solar-plus-storage is already Planned projects in the country renews.biz the Mohammed bin Rashid Al competitive with gas alternatives in include Kokam’s 13MW/40MWh Morocco and Jordan, it said. system divided between two sites in MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA ENTRANTS In South Africa, Eskom is planning a Chungchoeng region. mass implementation of battery OCI, meanwhile, is planning to Online in 2018 storage capacity with assistance from install a 51MWh battery in Gunsan-si Project, location Developer MW Technology the African Development Bank and in Jeollabuk-do province. Mohammed bin Rashid Al DEWA 1.2 Sodium sulphur battery World Bank. The 1.44GWh roll-out will Korea Zinc’s $45m, 150MW Maktoum solar park, Dubai, UAE see 800MWh installed alongside lithium-ion battery installation in 60MW of distributed PV at more than Ulsan is in the final stages of Due to go live in 2019 40 sites by the end of this year. construction and is due online by the A second phase is due to follow with Abu Dhabi, UAE Dept of Energy 108 Sodium sulphur battery end of next month. the remaining 640MWh of storage The batteries are supplied by Al Badiya solar park, Jordan Philadelphia Solar 12.6MWh Lithium-ion battery deployed with 60MW of distributed Hyundai Electric, which is making a Ma’an, Jordan MEMR 30 tbc solar PV by the end of 2021. 130MWh storage system that will be Eskom intends to deploy both solid Melilla, Africa Endesa 4 Lithium-ion battery co-located with a 65MW solar farm state and flow batteries under the in Seosan. n Various, South Africa Eskom 200 Various storage programme. n 21 February 2019 ENERGY STORAGE 21

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