- The power solutions arm of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will deploy three co-located battery storage projects for Origis Energy in the Southeast United States.
- The firm has over 2.5GWh of utility-scale BESS projects globally at varying stages of development.
The power solutions arm of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will deploy three co-located battery storage projects for Origis Energy in the Southeast United States. Florida-headquartered Origis has contracted Mitsubishi Power Americas to deliver three utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects totalling 150MW/600MWh. The projects will be co-located with solar facilities, utilise the firm’s Emerald storage solution and will come online over the next two years.
Origis has 32 US projects listed on its site, ten are in Florida, and another ten are evenly split between Georgia and Mississippi, with the remainder spread among the rest of the Southeast US (a region comprising around 14 states) and a few elsewhere in the country. The project awards are notable for large-scale deployments outside of Texas and California, which continued to dominate the US BESS market of deployments in Q3. The United States, including California and Texas. Mitsubishi Power is seeing this within our business with the projects awarded in the Southeast United States and Chile”.
Origis said the BESS units would enable it to add grid services to renewable energy generation. The company has 4GW of operational or contracted solar and storage in the US, 2.3GWh of BESS contracted, and 13.7GWh under development. Kenneth Kim, Vice President, Engineering & Strategy Planning at Origis Energy, said, “By adding the BESS solution to these facilities, we increase the asset’s value, adding enhanced grid solutions to clean, cost-effective solar power.”
Emerald is a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) based BESS product with up to six hours’ duration, although the three projects will be four-hour systems. The firm has over 2.5GWh of utility-scale BESS projects globally at varying stages of development. They will utilise Mitsubishi Power’s Emerald Integrated Plant Controller, its energy management system (EMS), and its Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, which will instruct the BESS charging and discharging activities and monitor its health.