Hevel Group has signed an agreement with Saft to develop megawatt-scale energy storage systems (ESS) for solar power plants in the Altai Republic, a remote region in southern Siberia, Russia. Saft’s lithium-ion energy storage technology will be integrated with Hevel's solar plants, ensuring a reliable and predictable supply of electricity as well as providing a range of ancillary services to maintain the stability of the local power grids.
To demonstrate the capabilities of ESS technology, a pilot project is being carried out to install a Saft Intensium Max containerized lithium-ion system at the existing Hevel-owned 10 MW Kosh-Agach solar plant. This signifies Saft’s first ever ESS deployed for a project in Russia.
Depending on the results of the pilot, the next stage will be to move to commercial implementation, with several ESS units with capacity in excess of 20 MW to be installed between 2020 to 2022, mainly in off-grid locations.
With an area of 92,900km2, the Altai Republic is home to just over 205,000 people – for comparison, the US state of Indiana is the same size but has a population of 6.5 million.
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