Big Batteries for the South Pacific have been installed in Tonga to stabilise the local grid and help in the fight against climate change.
large energy storage systems to the South Pacific. It has commissioned a 29.2 MWh battery energy storage system in Tonga, several weeks after powering up a 19 MWh project in Martinique. The Tonga 1 and Tonga 2 projects total 16.5 MW of power capacity and 29.2 MWh of energy storage capacity, making this the largest BESS in the South Pacific.
The BESS also demonstrated its resilience during a tsunami in January, which devastated the coastline and cut the country off from the outside world. The BESS continued operating and helped stabilise the grid in the days following the natural disaster. Eric Scott, chairman and co-founder of Akuo, said: “We are very proud to put this storage facility into service, proof if it were necessary of the key role this technology plays in power networks’ performance and of its complementarity with the production of renewable energy.”
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