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LOCAL A13
Monday 2 November 2015
WEB Aruba and Temporal Power Announce FirstEnergy Storage Project
Innovative Flywheel Project Supports Aruba’s Move to
100% Renewable Energy
ORANJESTAD, – WEB Aruba vice to its customers while the demands of the Aruban demonstrate globally that About WEB Aruba
and Temporal Powertoday also decreasing the island’s grid without any degrada- sustainable energy systems From desalinating water
announced the signing reliance on costly and en- tion over its 20 year design can be achieved econom- since 1932 to producing
of an agreement for the vironmentally harmful fossil life,” said Luis Oduber, WEB ically and reliably” said Eric energy for the island of Aru-
installation of a 5MW fly- fuels. Aruba’s interim Managing Murray, CEO of Temporal ba from 1958 until today,
wheel energy storage
system on the island of “Temporal’s flywheel stor- Director. Power adding, “This excel- Water and Energy
Aruba. The installation age technology is ideally “Aruba is a global leader lent example of Ontario’s Company WEB Aruba
is the first of its kind in suited to our needs on Aru- in their conversion to a sus- leadership and support for has undergone many
Aruba and will support ba. tainable energy system. energy storage is turning changes in order to
the country’s key initia- The technology is made Temporal Power is excit- into collaboration opportu- meet the needs of the
tives in renewable en- from recycled steel with no ed to have such a good nities that positively impact Aruban community.
ergy. toxic chemicals or disposal partner to work with on quality of life and the envi- WEB Aruba is actively
Aruba has committed issues and is able to meet a project which will help ronment.” working towards a fu-
to a goal of being 100 ture which is less de-
percent renewable by pendent on fossil fuels
2020 and has made and that has a minimal
significant progress impact on our environ-
with wind, solar and ment. “We envision a
waste to gas genera- Cleaner, Greener and
tion already installed. Fuel Oil Free water
The flywheel storage and power produc-
will ensure greater flex- tion by 2020.”For more
ibility and resilience to information: www.we-
the grid while simul- baruba.com. About
taneously decreasing Temporal Power Ltd.
the amount of fossil Temporal Power is a
fuel burned as part of Canadian-based and
energy production. privately owned com-
“In our endeavor to pany that designs,
create a sustainable manufactures and
society, the shift to a deploys high-perfor-
fully renewable grid mance energy stor-
is one of Aruba’s top age systems around
priorities. the world. The Tem-
To meet this goal, we poral Power system
will need to continue uses an all-steel fly-
our leading thinking wheel in combination
at WEB and leverage with magnetic bear-
innovative technolo- ings; positioning it as
gies like Temporal the highest energy
Power’s flywheels,” flywheel in the world.
said Mike Eman, Prime Temporal Power fly-
Minister of Aruba. wheels are used to
The 5MW storage proj- improve power qual-
ect is expected to be ity and lower costs
phase one of a two- by more accurately
phase project. balancing energy on
Phase two is expect- power systems. To-
ed to add another day, Temporal Power,
5MW of storagewhen partnering with world
the next wind farm comes leading equipment
on line in Aruba some time and engineering firms, is
in 2017. By staging the addi- deploying megawatt scale
tion of energy storage with systems and is supported
the increasing penetration by major investors such as
of renewable energy, WEB Enbridge Inc. and North-
will be able to maintain water Capital Manage-
high quality electrical ser- ment Inc.q
