Total to Establish 25 MWh Battery Power Storage Space Project in France

• Total has actually revealed that it has actually released a battery power storage space project with a storage space capability of 25 MWh, which will certainly be the biggest in France.

The advancement of renewable resource that is periodic and also decentralized needs the safety and security of the electrical power grid via flexible electrical power storage space capabilities, specifically in the form of batteries. As well as the brand-new BESS will certainly be utilized to supply quick book solutions to sustain the security of the French power grid. It belongs to federal government plan to sustain the advancement of electric capability via ability devices.

Set up for appointing in late 2020, the brand-new storage space system, which stands for a financial investment of around EUR 15 million, will certainly be based upon Saft's Intensium Max 20 High Energy option as well as will certainly consist of 11 incorporated 2.3 MWh containers, created and also made at Saft's manufacturing website in Bordeaux.

" This project belongs to Total's method to create the fixed power storage space options that are important to the growth of renewable resource, which is periodic naturally. It will certainly add towards the objective of raising the share of renewables in France's power mix while assisting to secure the residential power grid," claimed Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and also CEO of Total.

" Total's participation in the electrical energy section remains to broaden. With greater than 40 percent of the storage space abilities assigned, Total was the leading champion of the initial require tenders arranged by RTE (France's Electricity Transmission Network). This success was implemented thanks to the proficiencies of Total Flex, renewable resource gathering specialist, as well as Saft, the European leader in batteries for power storage space."

As part of its aspiration to come to be the liable power significant, Total is constructing a profile of low-carbon electrical power procedures, with the purpose of seeing them make up 15 to 20 percent of its sales mix by 2040. Today, Total's gross low-carbon power generation ability is close to 7 GW, of which greater than 3 GW from renewable resource resources.