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be responsible for the costs related to the
distribution and energy purchased. TransGrid
will manage and pay for the maintenance of
the battery on the Wallgrove network.
The initiative allows Infigen to increase
its backup portfolio, as well as significantly
increase its renewable energy capacity, by
buying and selling clean energy to customers
under supply contracts. The Wallgrove battery
will bring strength to the network and stability
in the energy supply system in this state.
TransGrid’s investment for Wallgrove
Grid Battery is supported by funding from
the Australian Renewable Energy Agency
(ARENA), as part of ARENA’s Advancing
Renewables Program, and from the New
South Wales Department of Planning,
Industry, and Environment (DPIE), as part of
saying. Government data showed Indonesia 200MW which feed to Senoko, where DPIE’s Emerging Energy Program.
has over 400GW of potential renewable Singapore has a power station.
energy capacity from hydropower, solar and The announcement was made at this week’s
geothermal, but only around 2.5% had been Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW),
utilised. an annual event which this year switched to a SOL AR
Harris said the government’s focus is hybrid virtual and in-person format, with the
on boosting solar since the infrastructure latter featuring a pilot run of pre-event rapid Vietnam’s Ha Do Group open
is becoming more affordable along with Covid-19 testing for physical attendees.
hydropower in places like North Kalimantan The proposal is expected to make up to 1.5 50MW solar farm n Ninh
province. percent of Singapore’s peak energy demand,
Indonesia’s parliament started discussions which recorded the highest monthly peak Thuan
on a renewable energy law last month. demand last year at 7.4GW in May.
Earlier this year, the energy and mineral Vietnamese real estate and energy projects
resources ministry issued an order that developer Ha Do Group on Saturday
scrapped the build, own, operate, transfer inaugurated its 50-MWp Ha Do Ninh Phuoc
(BOOT) model for renewable projects. BATTERIES solar farm in Ninh Thuan province.
The plant was connected to the grid
Iberdrola to operate on September 1 and reached commercial
operation date on September 4, 2020, the
networked batteries in Located in the communes of Phuoc Thai
IMPORTS group said.
Singapore aims to import Australia and Phuoc Vinh, the solar farm stretches over
an area of 58.7 hectares (145.1 acres). The
100MW from Malaysia Infigen has reached an agreement with local Ha Do Group equipped the plant with solar
trackers supplied by German firm Ideematec,
distributor TransGrid to operate Wallgrove’s
Singapore could be importing electricity battery powered energy storage system in New modules from SunPower Corp and a 22-kV
from Malaysia as early as next year, as part South Wales, called the “Wallgrove Network smart substation system.
of a long-term plan to bolster clean energy Battery”. The battery will have a power of The company said it had invested
generation and consumption across the 50MW, capable of producing 75MW, and VND1.079 trillion ($46.5m) in the project.
region. Infigen will manage it for a period of 10 years, Ha Do Ninh Phuoc is expected to generate
Singapore regulator Energy Market after its commissioning. about 92mn kWh of power each year.
Authority (EMA) on Monday unveiled Wallgrove will be owned, built and The Ha Do Ninh Phuoc inauguration
plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) maintained by TransGrid and commercial follows a recent event which saw Trungnam
by March next year to import 100MW of operations are expected to commence in the Group unveil its 450-MW solar farm -- also
electricity from Malaysia. Electricity imports second half of 2021. Vietnam’s largest -- in the coastal province
could begin as early as end-2021, using the Infigen will have dispatch control of the of Ninh Thuan. Along with the plant,
existing interconnector between the two Wallgrove Grid Battery and will receive all Trungnam’s complex included a power
countries. spot market revenues related to its operation, transmission system, constructed to help the
Malaysia has hugely ambitious plans for which will include revenues from energy grid achieve stability amid strong solar build
clean energy, with a goal of using solar and auctions and from the eight Frequency out in Ninh Thuan and Bin Thuan provinces.
biomass to grow its renewable share from Control Ancillary Services (FCAS) markets
around one percent to 20 percent by 2025. Its using Tesla’s Autobidder platform.
grid is already connected to that of Singapore, Infigen will pay TransGrid a fee for the
via submarine cables with a capacity of use of the Wallgrove Grid Battery and will

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