Friday, February 21, 2014

AES building 40-MW power storage system

Manila Standard Today
By Alena Mae S. Flores | Feb. 21, 2014 at 12:01am

AES Philippines Power Partners Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of US firm AES Corp., plans to build a 40-megawatt battery storage project in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental.

Records from the Energy Department showed the AES’ battery storage project, the first of its kind in the Philippines, is one of the indicative power projects in the Visayas grid, which is expected to come online by March 2015.
A battery storage system absorbs electrical energy during periods of supply surplus and stores it for use in period of low supply in the grid.
Sources, however, said the project was still in the “preliminary and exploratory stage.”
The battery storage project is a new technology using rechargeable cells which will be used for ancillary services, according to the department.
“They [AES] have a proposal to NGCP [National Grid Corporation of the Philippines] as ancillary services provider,” Energy director Mylene Capongcol said, when asked for comment.
AES Corp.’s subsidiary, AES Energy Storage, is a leader in commercial energy storage partnerships, which enable utilities, power markets and renewable developers to manage projects from concept to operation.
The company’s energy storage solutions allow customers to unlock value from existing power infrastructure by liberating reserve capacity, enabling renewable facilities to generate new revenue streams, improving flexibility and reliability of the power system, and meeting peak power demand.   source

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