Singapore has surpassed its 2025 energy storage deployment target three years early, with the official opening of the biggest battery storage project in Southeast Asia.
The opening was hosted by the 200MW/285MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project''s developer Sembcorp, together with Singapore''s Energy Market Authority (EMA).
EMA had awarded the technology company with the project contract last May through an Expression of Interest (EOI). Work began a month or two after that and was finished shortly before the end of 2022, meaning the entire project went from origination to commissioning in just six months.
The BESS is located on 2 hectares of land on Jurong Island, which is heavily industrialised and features much of Singapore''s energy generation and infrastructure.
It is equipped with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells in 800 separate containerised units, and as reported by Energy-Storage.news as construction approached its final leg in October, will be used to help balance the supply and demand of electricity on the grid, and for various ancillary services.
The target was set as part of the EMA programme, Accelerating Energy Storage Access for Singapore (ACCESS), through which the EOI solicitation was held. It is just the second grid-scale BESS project in the country following a 2.4MWh project by Wartsila, supplied and switched on in 2020.
EMA is understood to be continuing work on the ACCESS scheme, seeking to find ways to best integrate energy storage into Singapore''s energy networks, which will be required for it to achieve a targeted 2GW of solar PV capacity by 2030 and for emissions to peak by that time.
One industry source told Energy-Storage.news recently that proposing BESS projects for development in Singapore is challenging given the lack of space in urban areas of the densely populated territory, and commensurate regulations on fire safety and urban planning, among other things.
The state does not have a net zero target date, only that emissions will be in decline by 2050, and that it will aim for carbon neutrality when viable in the second half of this century. The power sector accounts for about 40% of all Singapore''s carbon emissions, according to EMA.
Sembcorp is active in international markets including the UK and has an energy storage portfolio of 709MWh. The energy and urban development group gave some more details on the Jurong Island project above what has been previously disclosed.
In a recent article for our quarterly journal, PV Tech Power, representatives of companies with a presence in the region spoke about how Southeast Asia is seeing an uptick in energy storage investment.
This follows some years of market-seeding activity and is driven by Southeast Asia''s growing energy demand and economic growth, as well as the need to meet a target of 24% renewable energy shared by the ASEAN group member states.
Energy-Storage.news'' publisher Solar Media will host the 1st Energy Storage Summit Asia, 11-12 July 2023 in Singapore.The event will help give clarity on this nascent, yet quickly growing market, bringing together a community of credible independent generators, policymakers, banks, funds, off-takers and technology providers. For more information, go to the website.
SINGAPORE - To ensure a continuous supply of solar energy, even on cloudy and rainy days, a new, large-scale battery storage system has been built on Jurong Island.
Made up of more than 800 large-scale battery units that can be individually moved and installed, the system stores excess solar energy generated in the day to be used at times of higher electricity demand.
The Sembcorp Energy Storage System spans 2ha of land in the Banyan and Sakra regions on Jurong Island, or the equivalent of four football fields, Sembcorp Industries said on Thursday.
Said by Sembcorp to be the largest in South-east Asia, it offers a solution to intermittent power generation, long a problem for countries as they shift towards renewable sources of energy.
Sembcorp said that the energy storage system has a maximum storage capacity of 285 megawatt hour (MWh), and, in a single discharge, can meet the electricity needs of around 24,000 four-room HDB households for one day.
Second Minister for Trade and Industry Tan See Leng, who officiated at the launch of the battery power system on Thursday, noted that when there is heavy cloud cover or rain, solar power efficiency drops significantly.
Mr Koh Chiap Khiong, Sembcorp Industries'' chief executive for Singapore and South-east Asia, who was also at the launch, said that more than 3,000MWh of energy has been discharged from the battery to the grid since the system began operating late last year.
The battery storage system can also provide reserves to the power grid, which can free up power generation plants to generate more electricity to meet demand when needed, said the company.
Energy Market Authority (EMA) chief executive Ngiam Shih Chun said that the large-scale energy storage system will complement Singapore''s efforts to maximise solar adoption, by storing and delivering energy despite the intermittent nature of solar power.
EMA''s director of industry development Jeanette Lim said that the energy storage system had to be completed by December last year in order to provide energy, reserves and regulation services to enhance Singapore''s grid resilience, to manage any protracted market and energy supply volatility.
Asked about plans to construct a larger energy storage system following Thursday''s launch, Ms Lim said that EMA will continue to assess the need for more energy storage systems to support greater use of solar power in Singapore and enhance Singapore''s grid resilience.
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