San Miguel, now off its authentic plan to ship a 1 GW/1 GWh fleet of battery vitality storage techniques (BESS) by the top of 2022, continues to run giant batteries in 32 websites within the Philippines, to combine as much as 5 GW of renewables into the island nation’s grid.
The facility arm of the Philippines-based conglomerate San Miguel Corp. unveiled a 50 MW BESS in Limay, Philippines, as a part of its 1 GW/1 GWh rollout nationwide. The ability is one in all 32 battery websites constructed within the group of islands in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. It expects to ship all of the tasks by the top of the yr, based on a press launch by Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the president of the Philippines.
“BESS know-how will help our aim of producing 35% of our whole vitality wants from renewables by 2030,” mentioned Marcos in an inauguration ceremony final week.
San Miguel’s battery storage portfolio started to take form in 2018, when it acquired the nation’s first BESS undertaking – the ten MW Masinloc Energy Plant. In January 2022, the conglomerate mentioned it was prepared to start out working an preliminary 690 MW of battery storage amenities, as a part of a plan to ship a 1 GW BESS fleet by the top of yr.
The Philippine Star quoted San Miguel CEO Ramon S. Ang as saying that the corporate has already awarded 640 MW tasks, of which the stability is predicted to be accomplished by December of this yr.
“The federal government is working to keep away from the facility disaster,” Ang mentioned. “However we all know that it’s going to take time to finish the brand new energy amenities. The BESS community is right here and it’ll present instant mitigation of the facility disaster.
San Miguel is partnering with ABB Philippines, Fluence, and Wartsila and their engineering, procurement and building contractors on the undertaking. This week, Fluence confirmed that it has accomplished the 570 MW BESS tasks for San Miguel. These tasks present essential grid-stability providers all through the Philippine nationwide transmission community, together with frequency response, reserve energy, and voltage regulation.
“Within the subsequent two years, we estimate the combination of as much as 5000 MW of renewable energy into the grid as a result of majority of our BESS amenities,” mentioned Ang.
On the inauguration ceremony, President Marcos promised to offer nice help to traders within the renewable vitality area and streamline laws on the nationwide and native ranges.
“We’ll enhance the coverage and regulatory framework for the renewable vitality trade, particularly for ESS know-how, to encourage additional improvement of our new renewables trade,” he mentioned.
Marcos added that his administration will proceed to work with San Miguel. He famous that the corporate has “different BESS tasks within the pipeline, accounting for 95% of BOI-approved tasks, with 2,000 MW of whole capability distributed throughout the nation… sooner or later. “
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