Saft energy storage system to support New Zealand’s transition to low-carbon electricity

• Meridian Power is constructing New Zealand’s first large-scale grid-connected battery power storage system (BESS) at Ruakākā within the North Island. • Saft lithium-ion expertise will present 100 MW of energy and 200 MWh of storage capability to assist grid stability as intermittent wind and solar energy will increase in New Zealand.

Paris, January 10, 2023 – Saft, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies, has been awarded a serious contract by Meridian Power to construct the primary large-scale BESS-connected grid in New Zealand. Situated in Ruakākā on the nation’s North Island, the 100-megawatt (MW) BESS will enhance the steadiness of the nationwide grid, as intermittent renewable energy technology will increase in New Zealand. BESS is the primary section of a venture that can embrace the development of a co-located 130 MW photo voltaic farm with Meridian Power.

Saft supplies a totally built-in resolution for the Ruakākā BESS, together with battery provide and energy conversion gear, set up, commissioning and 20 years of operational service. Scheduled to enter service within the second half of 2024, BESS could have a storage capability of 200 megawatt-hours (MWh) to assist the demand of the native grid for about two hours.

This versatile North Island asset will open up many new income streams for Meridian, with the flexibility to load shift between worth intervals and take part within the North Island reserve electrical energy market. Meridian expects BESS to generate annual income of as much as $35 million (USD).

Meridian Power Chief Govt Neal Barclay mentioned, “As renewable technology will increase in New Zealand, this BESS will assist handle provide fluctuations and cut back this nation’s reliance on fossil fuels. We now have a daring imaginative and prescient for Ruakākā, with a grid-scale photo voltaic farm deliberate. to additional speed up our transition to a low carbon economic system The shared infrastructure offered by BESS will significantly enhance the economic system of the longer term photo voltaic farm.”

The whole BESS resolution offered by Saft will embrace 80 Intensium ® Shift battery containers, primarily based on lithium iron phosphate (LFP) expertise with 40 inverters Freemaq PCSK GEN3, 20 Medium-Voltage Energy Stations and a Energy Administration System offered by third-party suppliers. Saft will combine this gear with Meridian and Transpower 33kV switchgears, SCADA and energy stations.

Appropriate for power time-shifting purposes, peaking and capability assist, the Intensium-Shift 3 MWh enclosures are scalable constructing blocks. They are often put in in line-ups with energy conversion gear with a 50% smaller system footprint, whereas lowering 50% of site-related actions, permitting a sooner deployment of utility-scale storage crops.

Intensium-Shift containers profit from Saft’s security idea with a novel mixture of confirmed and examined security units, comparable to fireplace prevention methods or blast panels. The containers are utterly stuffed in Saft’s factories and use a modular method, embedding batteries, thermal methods and digital management interfaces that hook up with Saft’s cloud-based information platform I-Sight. This end-to-end information administration resolution ensures real-time distant monitoring of system KPI’s and permits optimized asset utilization with minimal OPEX and downtime.

Saft works in shut partnership with clients, offering technical experience and assist from the beginning of the venture and engineering, by means of implementation and commissioning on the finish of life, dismantling and recycling of containers.

About Saft
Saft makes a speciality of superior expertise battery options for business, from design and growth to manufacturing, customization and repair provision. For greater than 100 years, Saft’s long-lasting batteries and methods have offered vital security, back-up energy and propulsion purposes for our clients. Our progressive, protected and dependable expertise supplies excessive efficiency on land, at sea, within the air and in house.
Saft powers business and smarter cities, whereas offering vital back-up gear in distant and harsh environments from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert. Saft is a completely owned subsidiary of TotalEnergies, a broad power firm that produces and sells energies worldwide: oil and biofuels, pure gasoline and inexperienced gasoline, renewables and electrical energy .
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