Since April this year, the citywide power grid supplying the city and port of Berbera in Somaliland, the largest port in the region, is being monitored and controlled using DHYBRID microgrid technology.
Two solar plants with a total capacity of 8 MW, a containerised lithium-ion power storage system with a capacity of 2 MWh, and three modern diesel generators were combined in the Berbera Electricity Company''s (BEC''s) grid. This has enabled BEC to reduce the electricity tariff in Berbera, making it now the lowest in Somaliland and the Somali Peninsula overall.
With the help of its international partners'' teams and remote commissioning, DHYBRID was able to complete this large-scale expansion in just six weeks, despite the ongoing pandemic and extensive global logistics challenges.
Ibrahim Yaqub, CEO of BEC says, "The requirement was clear: Berbera needed a scalable energy supply that could be monitored and managed centrally, within the shortest timeframe possible. The DHYBRID Universal Power Platform has succeeded in both; power quality and grid performance increased considerably as soon as everything was up and running."
The power factor of the city grid overall has increased by 20%. This has significantly improved the grid''s distribution, load bearing capacity and power generation efficiency. Discontinuing the use of large quantities of diesel fuel has made Berbera the largest city in Somaliland to be powered by renewable energy. It also now operates the largest battery energy storage system in the country.
BEC uses DHYBRID''s open-technology Universal Power Platform (UPP) as a process control system and monitors its energy grid with the same microgrid specialist''s SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system.
DHYBRID''s lithium-ion storage system can be operated either alongside the grid or as an integrated part of it. In this operating mode and in conjunction with the UPP, it almost completely eliminates grid instability and disturbances arising from the multiple effects of growing electrical demand profiles.
This project in Somaliland is one of the first in the world to use DHYBRID''s patented Maximum Inverter Power Tracking (MIPT) technology which enables an increased solar power share in microgrids.
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