On March 22, ENGIE Energía Perú, a power generation company, started the implementation of a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) to provide the primary frequency regulation service to the system. Contact online >>
On March 22, ENGIE Energía Perú, a power generation company, started the implementation of a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) to provide the primary frequency regulation service to the system.
The BESS project will have an installed capacity of around 30 MWh, which will be installed at ENGIE Energía Perú’s ChilcaUno Thermoelectric Power Plant, and will allow the plant to operate at full capacity, which translates into more efficient energy for the country, as well as contributing to improve the stability of the national power grid. The BESS system is expected to enter commercial operation during the second quarter of 2023.
“This project represents an important milestone in the development of energy storage systems with batteries in our country, as it allows adding experiences with complementary systems to electricity generation and thus contributing to the transition to a cleaner and more efficient energy matrix,” said Cesar Cornejo, Vice President of Operations and Projects of ENGIE Energía Perú.
ENGIE Energía Perú, on the other hand, is building the Punta Lomitas Wind Power Plant in the Ica Region. With an installed capacity of 260 MW, the future plant will become the largest wind farm in Peru. Thanks to its renewable energy production, it will avoid 240,000 tons of CO2 per year, which will directly benefit the environment.
Energy storage and EV infrastructure solutions firm NHOA has commissioned a 31MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Peru for multinational utility and IPP Engie.
The BESS unit was provided by NHOA to Engie Energía Perú on a turnkey basis and has been deployed at Engie’s 800MW ChilcaUno thermoelectric power plant, in Chilca, on the coast near the capital Lima.
It was inaugurated on 15 September in a ceremony attended by the Peruvian Minister of Energy Oscar Vera, the Vice-Minister of Energy Jaime Lu and the French Ambassador to Peru, H.E. Marc Giacomini. Engie is headquartered in Paris while NHOA is primarily based in Italy, though active globally.
When Engie announced the ChilcaUno BESS project last year, it said it would both help the plant operate at full capacity while also providing primary frequency regulation services to the electricity grid in Peru.
Luca Roccia, VP Americas for NHOA, commented: “We are exceptionally proud to have successfully completed this iconic project, especially considering the unprecedented challenges posed by the global macroeconomic and geopolitical environment.”
It is likely to be among the largest, if not the largest, BESS in the country. Another multinational utility and independent power producer (IPP), Italy-headquartered Enel, brought a 14.6MW BESS online at its Ventanilla thermal power plant in Callao online in 2021. Enel then described it as the country’s “first large-capacity battery system”.
Engie’s announcement comes two months after Canada-based stock market-quoted developer Polaris Renewable Energy announced it was launching a battery storage project in Peru, although gave no additional details and did not respond to a request from Energy-Storage.news when asked to do so.
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With this project, that follows the recent award of two utility scale systems in the US, NHOA reinforces its position in the American market, despite Covid-19 restrictions and globally disrupted supply chains.
Technologically, battery capabilities have improved; logistically, the large amount of invested capital and human ingenuity during the past decade has helped to advance mining, refining, manufacturing and deploying capabilities for the energy storage sector; and regulatorily, governments around the world have been passing legislation to make battery energy storage systems (BESS) more economically viable.
BESS are being built for a variety of use cases, from microgrids that provide energy resilience for hospitals to home solar outfits, to large-scale operations that enable solar, wind and other renewable sources to more efficaciously transmit their energy to end users.
Yet, despite the significant progress in the sector, there is still a long way to go if the ambitious climate targets of many countries around the world are to be reached. "Globally, energy storage capacity needs to increase by a factor of at least 40 times by 2030," says Saji Anantakrishnan, head of infrastructure, Australia and Asia, with PATRIZIA.
The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program, a coalition governed by representatives from an assortment of nations and chaired by the senior director of the World Bank''s Energy and Extractives Practice Group, estimates countries will collectively have to add 120 gigawatts of grid-scale battery storage each year by 2030 for the world to meet its net-zero goals. The amount of grid-scale battery storage added around the globe in 2022 was 11.1 gigawatts.
The increase in activity in the United States'' BESS sector since the IRA passed in 2022 has had rippling effects in the broader global market. Anantakrishnan says, "From a global perspective, the American Inflation Reduction Act created this hoovering effect of global private capital because those incentives are material, and a lot of institutions are viewing American projects as offering a better risk/reward payoff."
That doesn''t mean opportunities don''t exist in other markets. Anantakrishnan says countries that have had a rapid uptake of renewables but have not had a similar concentration of capital directed toward transmission are well positioned for BESS investment. Deploying BESS projects in areas with high renewable capacity, but that also experience high curtailment, allows developers to provide a tool that more efficiently captures and distributes that energy, all while being remunerative.
Anantakrishnan points to Japan as one country with significant opportunity for BESS investment. "Japan is obviously a big target," he says, "because post-Fukushima there was a very generous tariff, which led to a significant development and build out of renewables. Yet, the country has not seen a similar build-out of battery storage systems to support its grid infrastructure."
Many industries rely on energy resilience, something that is starkly clear in countries that experience regular intermittent energy outages. Batteries offer such customers a safeguard for when the grid trips unexpectedly. It''s also worth mentioning that a battery as backup, rather than a diesel generator set, facilitates sustainable outcomes for the surrounding community, according to Anantakrishnan.
"If you put batteries behind the meter into these [locations]," says Anantakrishnan, "not connecting into the grid per se, but actually saying, look, here''s an industrial case that, for Toshiba or Nissan that produces cars in Thailand — well, why don''t you stop using a diesel generator set and go for a more sustainable solution."
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