- Battery storage is a game changer for integrating variable generation.
- This BESS will be one of the fastest-constructed projects.
The Singapore Electricity Market Authority (EMA) has recognised that battery storage is a game changer for integrating variable generation from sources like solar PV and providing grid stability to help manage mismatches between electricity supply and demand. As a result, EMA has confirmed that the 200MW/200MWh Southeast Asia region’s largest battery storage project is on course for commissioning in November.
The project delivered by an engineering services group Sembcorp on Jurong Island, headquartered in Singapore and home to a large industrial park and much of the city-state’s energy generation and infrastructure, will be Southeast Asia’s most extensive battery storage project so far. Sembcorp has been active in battery storage projects in international territories, such as the UK. However, the project on Jurong Island is the company’s first in its home country.
In June, Sembcorp won an award From its Accelerating Energy Storage Access for Singapore (ACCESS) programme launched in 2018. The Battery Energy Storage Systems(BESS) will be one of the fastest constructed sites. The project, equipped with fast-response BESS lithium iron phosphate (LFP) chemistry batteries, will actively correct mismatches in energy supply and demand. It will also perform various regulation ancillary services to address fluctuations on a second-by-second basis, such as those created by introducing large shares of solar PV to the grid. EMA noted that LFP technology is “proven, safe and high-performing” and used worldwide to store renewable energy.