Ingeteam providing 70MW/340MWh BESS in Italy

• Energy conversion equipment specialist Ingeteam will supply a 70MW/340MWh battery energy storage space system (BESS) in northern Italy for a 2023 delivery date.

The business, based in Spain but with operations around the world, said the BESS will certainly be one of the biggest in Europe and the globe with a capacity "that was virtually unthinkable until lately". It will have a period of virtually 5 hours and also will certainly enter into operation in 2023.

The BESS will serve Italy's electricity grid greatly through involvement in the wholesale electricity market by covering peaks in electricity demand.

Ingeteam stated it will contribute to the decarbonisation of Italy's energy system, laid out in the PNIEC (National Plan for Energy as well as Climate 2030) which was lately accepted by the Italian government.

The firm will supply the containerised lithium-ion batteries and also power plant which include Ingeteam brand name converters and controls, along with the in-field assembly and also startup of the system.

"This project in itself stands for the energy shift in the direction of a model based upon renewable resources, where energy storage plays a fundamental role," said Stefano Domenicali, taking care of supervisor of Ingeteam Italy.

It will give 59 fully incorporated battery containers each with cooling systems, fire discovery and also extinguisher systems and also 59 battery inverters. Each containerised battery will have a nominated power of 2.88 MW and also a capacity of 5.76 MWh: Energy-Storage. information has actually gotten in touch with Ingeteam to make clear the power discrepancy in between these figures and also the headline figure of 70MW and will certainly upgrade this item when a response is received.

Ingeteam will certainly likewise supply 15 power plant with inverters as well as an accompanying PV inverter controller as well as SCADA (supervisory control and information acquisition) system.

It lately supplied a 3MW/9MWh BESS for Spain's very first solar-plus-storage project in the Extramadura region. The BESS was set up within the PV plant in such a way that meant the battery converters share the straight present link with the PV inverters.

The business was also the initial to introduce a large BESS project paired with a wind farm in the UK, the 50MWh system at the Whitelee website in Scotland. The project was slated for a 2021 distribution date.