X-Elio enters energy storage market with battery-solar hybrid in Chile

• Spain-based solar power developer X-Elio said on Thursday that its project to hybridise a 5-MWh battery system with a solar farm it has in Chile will certainly represent its debut in the energy storage market.

The lithium-ion battery energy storage space system (BESS) will be provided by Saft, the storage space subsidiary of French international TotalEnergies SE (EPA: TTE). Saft will certainly bring to the project 2 of its proprietary Intensium Max High Energy containers, together with power conversion as well as medium voltage transformer systems, X-Elio stated.

The system will certainly be hybridised with X-Elio's 58-MW Uribe solar PV plant situated in the desert of the Antofagasta region. That plant has functioned considering that mid-2017.

X-Elio anticipates the BESS to be set up during the 2nd quarter of 2023, and start running in the following quarter.

The first BESS project will certainly be adhered to by more as X-Elio plans be extra entailed with the energy storage innovation as well as boost the capacity in the coming years.

"The business counts with a group of energy storage professionals devoted to acquire the maximum value from a solar-plus-storage and from stand-alone storage space assets as well as ambitious plans to create a pipe going beyond 1 GWh by the end of the year," the declaration from X-Elio reviews.