Wartsila supplies battery for Taiwan grid

• 5.2 MW/5.2 MWh energy storage system will certainly supply regularity regulation when on-line in Q1 2022

Wartsila will provide an energy storage system that will certainly provide frequency guideline in the secondary solution market for the Taiwanese grid as the country goes for a 20% renewables mix by 2025.

The 5.2 MW/5.2 megawatt-hour battery order was put in August 2021 by Shangfa Building, which will build the energy storage plant in support of North-Star International.

The Beimen Energy Storage project will be located in the city of Kaohsiung as well as will be operational by the end of the very first quarter, following year.

Taiwan aims to have 20% solar as well as wind power by 2025, which will certainly be boosted with an extra 15GW of offshore wind power by 2035.

Taiwan's state-owned incorporated utility, Taiwan Power Company, has actually opened up a day-ahead supplementary service market, consisting of frequency law, rotating book as well as supplement book services.

Wartsila's system will certainly allow North-Star International to give regularity regulation as well as spinning get services.

Regularity guideline will allow the integration of higher levels of renewables, while the Wartsila energy storage system will certainly support regularity security and also enhance the integrity of the system, which are very important needs for markets such as semiconductor manufacturing.

North-Star International vice chairman Eddie Ho stated: "North-Star relocations actively towards renewable energy services, including power generation, EV charging, energy storage, and electrical energy sales.

" Our objective is to supply successful combination of renewable energy services ... We believe that Wartsila's energy storage system is the ideal choice to provide the required flexibility and also reliability."