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Vertically-integrated solar PV company Canadian Solar has been awarded a 45MW / 45MWh battery storage project by Colombia’s Ministry of Energy and Mines.
The ministry’s Energy Mining Planning Unit (UPME) launched the tender earlier this year, calling for proposals for deploying grid-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) technology to help alleviate system constraints and boost reliability of the grid in Barranquilla, in the Department of Atlantico area of northern Colombia. It will also aid addition of greater shares of renewable energy onto the network.
UPME sought suppliers, construction and operations and maintenance (O&M) partners, and said designs could involve either a single system or distributed systems connected to strategically located substations. Energy-Storage.news reported in late June that of eight bid submissions considered “serious” by UPME, subsidiaries of Canadian Solar and Engie were among international players taking part, along with locally-headquartered companies.
Canadian Solar announced its award yesterday. It said the Latin American nation’s government has granted a 15-year revenue structure, indexed to Colombia’s inflation or producer price index. The project is expected to reach commercial operation by June of 2023.
“We are very proud to have won this project in the first pure storage tender in Colombia. This is also our first energy storage project in the country and the Latin America region,” Canadian Solar CEO and chairman Dr Shawn Qu said.
Canadian Solar has been angling to gain a greater market share of the growing energy storage industry for some time, with standalone batteryand solar-plus-storage new build and retrofit projects underway in key markets like the US state of California. Qu said that the company will continue to execute on its “global energy storage growth strategy”. Canadian Solar recently said that its US-based development subsidiary Recurrent Energy has 2.3GWh of US battery storage projects either contracted or already in construction.
Battery storage has been gradually gaining a foothold in the wider Latin America region, with potential for greater renewables integration and also adding reliability to often very fragmented electricity transmission networks. This includes behind-the-meter commercial and industrial (C&I) storage in places like Mexico and Puerto Rico, as well as some large-scale front-of-meter projects in Chile.
GUELPH, ON, July 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Canadian Solar Inc. (the "Company" or "Canadian Solar") (NASDAQ: CSIQ),today announced it has been awarded the first utility-scale battery storage project in Colombia of 45 MW / 45 MWh.
The project was awarded in the public tender launched by Colombia''s Ministry of Energy and Mines, via its affiliate UPME, the Mining and Energy Planning Unit. Located in the city of Barranquilla in northern Colombia, this project will consist of a 45 MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage system and is expected to reach commercial operation by June 2023. The project is granted with a 15-year revenue structure with the Colombian government and is indexed to the country''s inflation or producer price index.
The Barranquilla project will strengthen the electricity transmission network in the Atlántico Department in northern Colombia and support the government''s efforts to prevent future supply deficits. It will also support a greater penetration of renewable energy in the Colombian electricity system by improving the reliability of intermittent sources of energy.
Dr. Shawn Qu, Chairman and CEO of Canadian Solar, commented, "We are very proud to have won this project in the first pure storage tender in Colombia. This is also our first energy storage project in the country and the Latin America region. The project award is testament to our global presence not just in solar but also in the energy storage business, and further solidifies Canadian Solar''s position as a market leader in clean energy. We will continue to execute on our global energy storage growth strategy and look forward to providing more flexible, reliable and clean energy to our customers across the world."
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Pictured above: Dr. Esteban Garcίa-Tamayo (second from right) and colleagues at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana are using fique plants, pictured behind them, to create new sustainable energy storage.
Coffee, Colombia''s most famous export, is stored and shipped in sturdy woven bags made from a local plant called fique (Furcraea bedinghausii), also known as sisal. The fibers of the fique plant are notoriously strong, but creating textiles wastes nearly 95% of the plant itself.
As a nanoscientist specializing in energy delivery, Esteban Garcίa-Tamayo, PhD, believes that the byproducts of this process may be essential for the future of sustainable energy storage.
Using the fique waste from coffee bag production, Dr. Garcίa-Tamayo, associate professor of engineering, and Stiven Guzman, graduate student, at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) in Medellin, Colombia, and their team produced bacterial nanocellulose, tiny nano-scale fibrils of the plant material that have enormous potential to store energy.
While researchers in the Department of Nanotechnology Engineering were searching for solutions to energy storage in natural materials, the department gained its own energy for a wide range of research projects.
Prior to their Instrumental Access award in 2017, faculty in the Department of Nanotechnology Engineering at UPB were utilizing other labs at the university but had no dedicated laboratory space for themselves.
In this first-of-its-kind department in South America, recruiting students to do high-level graduate research was a struggle.
But in June 2018, the department got a new, expansive home. An Instrumental Access shipment with 450 pieces of equipment arrived on campus—allowing Dr. Garcίa-Tamayo and colleagues to outfit an entirely new space with the Instrumental Access equipment.
And with that new space came renewed student interest in nanotechnology.
"For students, it’s important to know they now have sufficient lab infrastructure. When they saw this big shipment of equipment, they got very interested," says Dr. Garcίa-Tamayo. "The nanotechnology students who helped us unpack and assemble the labs got excited from the beginning. Then a new pool of students started to get interested in energy research."
Stiven Guzman, says Dr. Garcίa-Tamayo, returned to UPB for graduate studies with the goal of studying the energy storage possibilities in fique plant fibers.
The fique plant study is now part of a larger research collaboration between UPB and Queen Mary University in London. As part of the UK''s Newton Fund Institutional Links program, the working group will contribute to the training of three early-career scientists from UPB, a collaboration made more feasible with UPB''s Instrumental Access equipment.
The collaborating institutions are trying to solve one large problem: the world''s current practice of storing energy in single-use batteries is contributing to environmental and political instability.
Environmentally, the batteries are simply unsustainable, as they are not designed for multiple uses. And the high demand for the raw materials needed for battery production can lead to unsafe conditions for hundreds of thousands of cobalt miners in mineral-rich countries. The demand for other materials, such as graphite, has geopolitical implications as well.
Fique, according to Dr. Garcίa-Tamayo, could hold the answer to these problems.
"Some of my colleagues at UPB have used this bacterial nanocellulose for other applications, like textiles and wound dressing. But they had never explored energy applications," says Dr. Garcίa-Tamayo. "We wanted to work together because the structure of nanocellulose, which is very porous, makes it appealing for the energy storage for my field."
So far, the collaboration has shown a number of early successes, both scientific and economic. For one, the research group began partnering with local fique producers to purchase the fique byproducts not used in the production of coffee bags, providing income for what was once thought of as waste.
The scientific successes are promising as well. The nanocellulose derived from fique has shown promising ability to store energy, and tapping into this potential has been aided by the Instrumental Access equipment that arrived at UPB in 2018.
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