Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa), has commissioned the Middle Eastern country’s first ever megawatt-scale battery storage system in time to measure the pilot project’s effectiveness at dealing with peak demand in summer.
The state-owned electricity and water company announced last week that the deployment and grid connection of a 1MW / 4MWh Tesla Powerpack battery energy storage system (BESS) had been completed “ahead of schedule and beginning operations to benefit from it during the summer period,” during which Qatar’s energy demand is at its seasonal highest.
This was despite “many challenges” that a team of “young Qatari personnel” had to overcome during the project’s execution, Kahramaa said, particularly around managing and training workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The pilot project could prove to be important in the Gulf State if successful, with the electricity and water supplier and regulator investigating whether the technology and its applications could be scaled up to be used at high-load substations in the country’s electricity network, and could also be integrated with large-scale renewable energy projects including the800MW solar PV project Al Kharsaah near Qatar’s capital Doha which was tendered for and got a then-record low-price tariff in January.
In a recent interview, Dr Imran Syed, head of energy storage at UAE-based sustainable energy project company Enerwhere said that utilities in the Middle East, which are generally state-owned, are mostly still “testing out technologies” when it comes to battery energy storage.
Dubai’s main utilities, Syed said, are “still trying to understand the systems before they invest,” in a pattern that the developer said was fairly common for the wider region at this time. However, with ambitions to increase solar penetration on the grid in countries including the UAE and Qatar, Syed said he believed that storage “will be needed at some point”.
From an industry perspective, as with any new technology, there is still a need to build up expertise, particularly when it comes to designing and maintaining systems that can deal with the heat and humidity of the region, he said in that interview.
Syed’s team at Enerwhere coincidentally is thought to have been the first to deploy a project based on Tesla’s Powerpack, a 200kWh unit that now helps an industrial off-grid facility in Sharja, UAE, operate on a combination of solar and diesel generators.
Qatar’s Kahramaa said that its 1MW / 4MWh pilot has been connected to a 11kV substation at Nuaijia. It is aimed at securing electricity production capacity at peak times to boost electric system efficiency as well as sustainability: the batteries charge off-peak and then help the station cope with periods of high load. It can also be used to control voltage, the utility company said.
The project cost a total of around QR 10 million (US$2.75 million) and was designed, planned and installed by Kahramaa in partnership with local infrastructure project company Al Attiyah Group, which also carried out civil works.
Utility-scale solar power plant is central to Qatar''s carbon-neutral power system
Hitachi Energy announced today it has been awarded a major order that will help Qatar''s national grid increase the integration of renewable energy from the country''s first large-scale solar power generation project – the 800MW Al Kharsaah photovoltaic (PV) power plant.
As part of the agreement with PowerChina Guizhou Engineering and leveraging its integration capabilities and grid code requirement know-how,Hitachi Energy will provide a fully engineered 220kV grid connection solution that includes detailed engineering and equipment, in line with local requirements and standards. This is a fundamental pillar in supporting the customer to successfully develop the region''s largest solar power infrastructure project for clean energy generation.
Scheduled for partial commissioning in Q2 2021, Al Kharsaah is key to achieving a carbon neutral power system, by integrating renewables as outlined in the Qatar National Vision, whereas the country - by 2030 - aims to advance and sustain its development and provide a high standard of living for all of its people.
"Our pioneering technologies and global experience will help Qatar to diversify its power generation resources by safely and securely integrating utility-scale solar power generation into its grid," said Mostafa AlGuezeri, managing director ofHitachi Energy in the UAE, Gulf, Near East and Pakistan.
Al Kharsaah will drive big changes in the region''s electricity sector diversifying Qatar''s energy mix and reducing emissions.Hitachi Energy will help Qatar maximizing renewable energy penetration and increasing the operational and maintenance efficiency of this ground-breaking project.
Hitachi Energy providesfully integratedgrid connection solutions to efficiently integrate energy from renewable power plants of all types into transmission grids and distribution networks. Supported by deep knowledge of renewable power generation technology and long experience with grid standards and utility practices around the world,Hitachi Energy develops and pioneers solutions based on proven, state-of-the-art technologies that help our customers build the foundations of a renewable energy future.
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