ACEN Powers Up Philippines first Hybrid Solar-Storage Plant

• The 2 × 20 MW energy storage facility is adjacent to ACEN's 120 MW Alaminos solar farm.
• The facility holds 24 battery containers with SAFT 2.5 MWh lithium-ion batteries, likely sufficient to power regarding 20,000 homes and avoid 35.87 MTCO2e exhausts annually.

ACEN, the detailed energy platform of the Ayala Group, has actually activated the first hybrid solar and energy storage project of the Philippines.

The pilot 40 MW energy storage project found in Alaminos, Laguna, will certainly permit the company to review chances to keep energy better across the portfolio of ACEN, with the aim to offer a sustainable and trusted energy source for the Philippines, said a main declaration.

The 2 × 20 MW energy storage facility adjoins ACEN's 120 MW Alaminos solar farm, and also is configured to aid manage inner electrical power demands, store power when the solar plant is generating power but demand is low, and also supply fast power charging when the demand is high. It will additionally give secondary solutions to the national grid.

The facility holds 24 battery containers with SAFT 2.5 MWh lithium-ion batteries, likely sufficient to power concerning 20,000 homes and also prevent 35.87 MTCO2e exhausts annually.

" We are delighted to begin the procedures of ACEN's really first battery energy storage project," stated ACEN President & CEO Eric Francia. "We will certainly be seeking to increase our financial investments in storage as the innovation enhances its viability and also competition."

" We are benefiting from battery storage technology's fast action, scalability and also ease of assimilation right into our eco-friendly projects," said Jose Maria Zabaleta, ACEN's Chief Development Officer. "With the Alaminos Energy Storage project, we can harness renewable resource better amidst its irregularity while improving the operating capabilities of the grid as well as guaranteeing high reliability."

The Alaminos Solar as well as Storage hybrid facility is notable for its introducing Sustainability Hub, where the plant is surrounded by Ayala Land's Carbon Forest, a woodland reserve that serves as a carbon catch and also home to biodiversity, claims ACEN.

A plastic recycling facility has actually additionally been integrated to pilot the circular strategy, diverting plastic waste from landfills to be upcycled right into eco-bricks as well as to be used in structure facilities within the plant.

And also with a future Eco Discovering Center already underway, ACEN aims to produce awareness on numerous climate activity programs such as nature-based options which are essential for the protection and restoration of natural communities, the firm includes.

ACEN looks for to achieve net zero greenhouse gas discharges by 2050, wanting to becoming the biggest provided renewables platform in Southeast Asia.