Largest battery storage project in Southeast Asia begins commercial operation

Energy Storage News:

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.

[Andy Colthorpe]

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