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Large Energy Storage System Commissioned in Germany. NEC
Energy Solutions (NEC) in late June said it had commissioned
the largest energy storage system in Europe for Germany-based
EnspireME, a joint venture between Eneco, a Netherlandsbased
renewable energy company, and Mitsubishi Corp. Eneco
said the 48-MW storage system in Jardelund, Germany, has more
than " 50 MWh of storage capacity and will generate revenue
from the primary reserve market by providing reactive power
to stabilize the transmission grid. " NEC provided turnkey engineering,
procurement, and construction services, including its
GSS end-to-end grid energy storage solution and its AEROS proprietary
energy storage controls software. European transmission
system operators are required to secure a certain number
of capacity reserves to prepare for sudden power loss or an
extensive blackout. The storage capacity from the system will
be sold to the German electricity market through weekly common
auctions, in which European grid operators purchase their
required reserve capacity in the primary reserve control market
to guarantee the 50-Hz frequency on the grid. The companies
said the storage system " can also take over the role of primary
reserve provider and become a more sustainable alternative to
coal- and gas-fired plants. " Hugo Buis, Eneco's director of generation
and storage, said the project took about eight months
to complete. It is housed in a 70-meter by 12-meter building,
holding about 10,000 lithium-ion battery modules.
Myanmar Plans for New Generation. An executive with Yangon
Electricity Supply Corp. (YESC) said the Yangon Region
in Myanmar is expected to require 3,000 MW of electricity by
2021-2022. Daw Su Hlaing Wint, assistant manager of YESC,
on June 22 told the Electricity and Energy Expo in Yangon that
number represents a doubling of the amount of electricity currently
generated across Myanmar. The Yangon region at present
consumes about half of Myanmar's power. Wint estimated
that the increase in generation capacity would require about
K1 billion ($720,000) of infrastructure, including substations
and transmission lines, for each additional MW of electricity
generated. The country plans to build 77 66-kV substations
over the next four years if money is made available. The government
has discussed financing with the Asian Development
Bank to upgrade several existing 230-kV substations. It also
is replacing older transmission lines and underground cables
and installing new transformers at existing substations. The
Myanmar Times reported that a YESC official said, " Once the
230-kV grid is completed, we expect to provide more reliable
electricity supply in Yangon. " The region currently has five
gas-fired power plants. The 106-MW Thaketa combined cycle
plant came online in March of this year. Other plants in Yangon
include Ahlone (154 MW), Hlawgar (154 MW), Ywama (52
MW), and Thilawa (50 MW).
New Combined Cycle Plant for Bangladesh. The Asian Development
Bank (ADB) said it would provide a $500 million
loan for an 800-MW combined cycle power plant in Khulna,
Bangladesh. The money will be used to develop and equip the
Rupsha plant, along with connections to a natural gas supply-including
the construction of gas pipelines-and connections
to the distribution grid. The plant, expected to be
completed in summer 2022, will include a 230-kV switchyard
and 29 kilometers of high-capacity transmission lines. The facility
will also have an advanced water treatment process to
purify and recycle liquid waste at the end of the industrial
process, resulting in zero discharge. The project's total cost
is estimated at $1.4 billion. The Islamic Development Bank
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China Financing Zimbabwe Power Expansion. Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa in late June commissioned
construction of the Hwange Thermal Power Station expansion
project, the second major power development project by China
in the southern African country in five years. The project's
cost is estimated at $1.5 billion. Sinohydro, a Chinese power
and engineering construction company, will lead the project,
which will add two 335-MW generating units. The project has
a timeline of about 42 months, which would bring it online by
year-end 2022. Hwange, owned by state-run electricity company
ZESA Holdings and operated by ZESA subsidiary Zimbabwe
Power Co., is the largest power plant in Zimbabwe with
installed generation capacity of 920 MW, though it has been
operating below capacity in recent years as the plant has aged.
The plant, with four 120-MW units and two 220-MW units, came
online in stages from 1983 to 1987. The project is designed to
modernize the country's energy infrastructure. " This project is
a reflection of our resolve to increase energy and power supply
as we quest to become a middle-income economy by 2030, "
Mnangagwa said. Sinohydro in March 2018 completed the $533
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which added 300 MW to the country's grid. ■
-Darrell Proctor is a POWER
associate editor.
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