- A battery energy storage system (BESS) provided by Fluence has been inaugurated on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
- The project was developed by EEM and handed the contract to global battery storage system integrator Fluence and parent company Siemens.
A battery energy storage system (BESS) provided by Fluence has been inaugurated on the Portuguese island of Madeira. The 15MW/16.4MWh system sits on the main island of Madeira, a four-island archipelago, an autonomous community of Portugal. The installation is part of a project that includes a 3.3MWh system on the smaller island of Porto Santo.
Project manager for Empresa de Electricidade da Madeira (EEM), the island’s leading utility, Diogo Vasconcelos, said, “It will be possible to increase the RES (renewable energy sources) hybridisation of our regional electrical system leading to a better grid stabilisation and security of supply by improving key parameters of the electrical grid (frequency & voltage)”. The project has been partly financed by the EU-funded €25 billion (US$25.8 billion) POSEUR programme – ‘Operational Programme for Sustainability and Efficient Use of Resources.’
The project was developed by EEM and handed the contract to global battery storage system integrator Fluence and parent company Siemens to allow EEM to increase the island’s renewable energy mix to 50%, black start parts of the network and restore grid operations after outages. The system comprises Fluence’s lithium iron phosphate-based (LFP) modular energy storage product.