Nidec starts building 40MW battery storage for Neoen in Sweden
French-headquartered independent power producer (IPP) Neoen has given system integrator Nidec ASI the green light to begin work on a 40MW battery storage unit in Sweden, Neoen’s first in the country.
Nidec ASI will now begin work on the Storen Power Reserve, a one-hour system in Ragunda municipality that will provide frequency containment reserve (FCR) ancillary services to the network operator Svenska Kraftnät.
The battery system will be put into commercial operation in the first half of 2024, the companies say. Neoen will own and operate the asset.
It is Neoen’s first battery storage project in Sweden and its third renewable energy project there, after the Storbrännkullen wind and Hultsfred solar energy projects, which are under construction and start construction in the second half of this year.
It is the company’s second battery project in the Nordics after that hired Nidec ASI to build a 30MW/30MWh unit in Finland in 2020.
Battery energy storage project in Sweden has begun to increase over the past year as the country’s pumped hydro storage (PHES) reaches the upper limit of its capacity to balance the grid.
Last month, OX2 and Ingrid developed Capacity started work on two battery storage projects with a total of 60MW power while the latter said in September that it was also building a 70MW unit, the largest in the country – all three for delivery date 2024.
Between these two messages from Ingrid was news of what project developer Alight claimed to be the largest solar-plus-storage unit in the country, combining a 2MW battery system and an existing 12MW solar array. The company said in October that the new energy storage system would come online in two months.
Nidec ASI is the Italian industrial solutions division of the Japanese conglomerate Nidec Corporation and was ranked as one of the largest battery storage system integrators in the world in IHS Markit’s 2021 report.
It has recently signed major deals with lithium-ion battery gigafactory startup FREYR to build 12GWh of battery energy storage systems per year by 2030and deploy 5.4 GWh battery system by an unnamed company in Italy.
The Neo has been even busier in recent weeks and months with several large project announcements in Australia that you can read about here.
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