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SMC Global to finish 690-MW battery storage plant

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San Miguel Corp. said Tuesday unit SMC Global Power Holdings Corp is set to complete 690 megawatts of battery energy storage system facilities by early 2022.

SGPHC is spending $1 billion to build 1,000 MW of BESS across 31 sites due for completion by the end of 2022. Sources said SGPHC would likely complete the initial 690 MW within the first half covering 22 sites.

“A total of 690 MW out of 1,000 MW battery energy system facilities nationwide will be operational by early 2022. By year-end, we will have completed all 31 facilities for a total of 1,000 MW in capacity,” SMC president Ramon Ang said.

“This will help balance power in the grid and pave the way for a clean energy future,” Ang said.

The company completed in 2018 the first battery energy storage facility in the country in its power plant in Masinloc, Zambales.

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It has since embarked on a project using a relatively new technology capable of improving power quality throughout the grid system and facilitate integration of renewable power sources into the country’s generation portfolio.

SGPHC earlier said the technology is a major step towards making intermittent renewable energy more viable in the country.

“Our ongoing investment into battery energy storage facilities will greatly benefit power consumers all over the country, because this will mean that even faraway provinces or areas, can have the same stable and good quality power supply as everywhere else, ”Ang said earlier.

Ang said that if some areas could not attract investments because of unstable or poor power supply in the past, battery energy storage could make power supply more stable and reliable.

“Battery storage will significantly reduce imbalances in the grid that cause power interruptions and brownouts,” he said.

Ang said the technology would boost flexibility of the country’s power grid and improve power quality by removing excess power and injecting required power at strategic areas within the grid at millisecond level.

This ensures power quality is maintained and that it reaches power users all over the country, he said.

“This can even support equal-opportunity industrialization in many provinces where historically, no industrial plants would locate because of poor power quality,” Ang said.

Ang said the BESS facilities could facilitate the integration of renewable energy sources such as wind or solar into the grid.

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