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GRIDS is however a first for Singapore, which only managing director for Singapore, Nirupa
got its first large-scale battery storage system Chander, said that Singapore has one of the
Hitachi ABB Power Grids last year, a 2.4MW / 2.4MWh energy storage most reliable electricity networks in the world
system (ESS) installed by Wärtsilä in a project
and that the project was a good example of
does virtual power plant supported by the Singapore Energy Market how multiple stakeholders from government,
Authority (EMA).
academia, industry and technology providers
and ‘greener coal mine’ balance variable generation from DERs with “collaborate to deliver innovative solutions
The battery storage and controls will
and accelerate the energy transition for a
projects in Southeast Asia “smart and dynamic loads”, the company greener future”.
said in a press release. A representative told
“To meet the carbon emission standards
Hitachi ABB Power Grids will supply Energy-Storage.news that details of storage of the future, Singapore will have to tap on all
battery energy storage and smart controls to output and capacity, or of the distributed renewable energy sources, relying on artificial
Singapore’s first virtual power plant (VPP), energy resources to be integrated, could not intelligence and smart solutions to better
on a project aimed at validating methods for be revealed at this time. coordinate and manage all its energy sources
integrating more renewable energy onto the The Hitachi ABB Power Grids efficiently. The Virtual Power Plant (VPP) is a
city-state’s electricity networks. representative did say in a brief statement key project that will allow efficient modelling
The project will help integrate electricity that the e-mesh Powerstore combination is and innovative features of these emerging
from different distributed energy resources “a scalable microgrids and energy storage technologies to be validated,” Nanyang
(DERs) including solar in a way that simulates solution that is designed to ensure reliable Technological University professor Lam Khin
the workings of a utility-scale power system, power availability, grid stability, highest Yong said.
the company said. Hitachi ABB Power Grids possible penetration of renewable energy
will provide its Powerstore battery storage together with an intelligent control system for
technology coupled with the company’s digital both grid-connected and off-grid systems”.
controls platform, called e-mesh. “This project demonstrates the innovation VIRTUAL POWER PL ANT
Virtual power plants which combine large driving entirely new approaches to
numbers of distributed assets from behind- electrification. VPPs are a flexible, reliable Virtual power plant to pilot
the-meter including rooftop solar, battery addition to the infrastructure already in place
storage and other assets like electric vehicles to shift to even more renewable sources of in Western Australia
and smart thermostats to form a much larger, energy,” the representative said.
aggregated resource that can serve energy The project is being developed by Nanyang Project Symphony has been launched to create
or power functions on the grid have been Technological University, Singapore’s Energy an over 500 household and business virtual
growing in number around the world, with Research Institute and is jointly funded by power plant in suburban Perth.
notably large examples already deployed in Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) The A$35mn ($27mn) project is to be
Australia, the US, Japan and elsewhere. and engineering services company Sembcorp, deployed in the Perth suburb of Southern
The new project, which began its which is also headquartered in the country. River, where more than half of households
development process a couple of years ago, Hitachi ABB Power Grids country have rooftop solar installations.

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