With the inauguration of Southeast Asia’s largest battery storage facility, Singapore has achieved its 2025 energy storage deployment goal three years ahead of schedule.
The opening was hosted by developer Sembcorp of the 200 MW/285 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project and the Energy Market Authority of Singapore (EMA).
In May, EMA awarded the technology company a contract for the project through an expression of interest. (EOI). Construction then began and was accomplished just before the top of 2022, with just six months from project begin to commissioning.
On Jurong Island, which is very industrialized and residential to much of Singapore’s energy production and infrastructure business, BESS covers an area of 2 hectares.
According to Energy-Storage, it’s powered by 800 different lithium iron phosphate (LFP) container cells. The messages were used for various ancillary services and to balance electricity supply and demand on the grid as construction neared completion in October.
With only one project, EMA has already exceeded Singapore’s goal of deploying 200 MWh of energy storage by 2025.
The goal was set under EMA’s Accelerating Energy Storage Access for Singapore (ACCESS) initiative, which was used to implement the EOI request. This is the second grid-scale BESS project within the country, the primary being the two.4 MWh Wartsila project, which was delivered and launched in 2020.
EMA is reportedly still working on the ACCESS program, taking a look at the perfect ways to include energy storage into Singapore’s power grids. This is essential for Singapore to attain its goal of two GW of solar capability by 2030 and for emissions to peak by that point.
In a recent Energy-Storage report, news portal quotes an industry source who claims that it’s difficult to propose BESS projects for implementation in Singapore as a consequence of the country’s limited urban space and regulations regarding, amongst others, fire safety and concrete planning.
Source: Energy-Storage.news
