by Myrna Velasco January 2, 2016
The battery-based energy storage of
American firm AES Corporation at its Masinloc coal plant site in Zambales is up
for completion middle of next year.
That will then add 10 megawatts of
interconnected capacity to its facility that will expectedly “enhance the
reliability of the Luzon grid.”
As set on blueprint, the proposed
Masinloc Array will be equipped with the Advancion energy storage solution of
the US firm.
This is a pioneering effort when it
comes to commercial-scale deployment of battery energy storage in the
Philippines, thus, all eyes are on the outcome of such technology experiment.
The battery installation broke
ground mid-December at the 600-MW Masinloc plant site – graced by AES Asia
strategic business unit president Marty Crotty along with energy officials and
executives and officials from the host local government unit.
Following this Luzon grid venture,
AES indicated that it will push next its planned installations in the Visayas
grid – primarily the one targeted for Kabankalan, Negros Occidental.
According to AES Philippines
managing director Neeraj Bhat, “battery-based energy storage will play a
critical role in tomorrow’s grid,” with the technology “helping to improve
stability, lower total system costs and incorporate higher volumes of renewable
energy projects.”
For the Kabankalan project, Bhat
said it “will improve the Visayas grid’s ability to incorporate the significant
volume of solar power coming on-line in the region in early 2016.”
Battery storage is not only offered
in the power marketplace to beef up supply, but primarily to improve grid
reliability especially in systems with high penetration of intermittent
renewable energy sources.
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