15
Apr

Swiss Battery Maker Leclanche Joins Portuguese Island Grid Project

Lithium-ion batteries from Leclanche will be deployed in what is believed to be “the world’s first MW-scale renewable energy plus storage system” on the Portuguese island of Graciosa.

The battery energy storage solution will have a capacity of 2.8MW, to support the 4.5MW of wind power and 1MW of solar for the project, along with an intelligent energy management system being built by German-US developer Younicos.

With this project, Graciosa’s share of renewables will increase from 15% to 65%. This will stabilise the grid network and greatly reduce the need for thermal power generation and costly fuel imports to the island.

According to Leclanche, this project will “set new standards for islands worldwide”, which remain heavily dependent on fossil fuel imports currently. When combined with storage, the economic cost of energy is highly favourable to renewable energy against fossil fuels.

If you want to know more about this and other topics directly from end users of energy storage technologies join us at one of these annual events: The Energy Storage World Forum (Grid Scale Applications), or The Residential Energy Storage Forum, or one of our Training Courses.

LATEST ARTICLES

Annual Installed Capacity Significantly Increases

While the global market was under the haze of the epidemic and many countries were still in lockdown, the energy storage market showed extremely strong resilience and began to recover and grow since Q3 and Q4 of 2020. According to the BloombergNEF report, the global energy storage market in 2020 has developed faster than expected,…

Read More

Energy Storage Systems: the role of an Integrator

Simplifying BESS deployments by mastering their associated risks With the introduction of Battery Energy Storage Systems ‘BESS’, a new role has been created on the value chain. It is the role of a BESS integrator. The role of an integrator can be misunderstood at times or blended with other roles at other times. This is…

Read More

★REVIEWS

[gdlr_testimonial columns="1" type="static" style="box-style"]
[gdlr_tab title="Sales Director" position="S&C"]“Probably the most interactive and well organized storage event on the calendar.”
★★★★★[/gdlr_tab]

[gdlr_tab title="TLC & SCADA Manager" position="FRI-EL"]“Great topics, competent speakers, good networking: keep it like that.”
★★★★★[/gdlr_tab]

[gdlr_tab title="Expert Technical & Governance" position="Elia"]“High scientific content, well targeted, perfect organization.”
★★★★★[/gdlr_tab]

[gdlr_tab title="Manager" position="ATL"]Excellent networking event. The sponsorship was well worth it.”
★★★★★[/gdlr_tab]
[/gdlr_testimonial]

View More

x