President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said the Philippines may not have to build big power generators like the $2.3-billion Bataan Nuclear Power Plant anymore as his administration was instead considering large energy storage facilities. | MegINQ NCorralesINQ
“However … we no longer need to construct all of those facilities. We no longer need to put in that kind of infrastructure. All we need now are these battery farms that we are seeing today,” he said.
The President pointed out that introducing a storage component into the overall energy infrastructure in the Philippines would help the country’s transition to clean energy.“It is safe, has zero noise pollution, zero carbon emissions, zero water extraction, and generates zero waste. It also remedies the challenge with wider adoption of renewable sources, which is intermittence,” he said.
The world’s largest BESS facility is the 1,600-MW Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility in California developed by global power generation company Vistra Energy Corp. It began operations in 2021.Once electricity demand increases, the facilities load the stored power back into the grid to augment supply and prevent outages.
With a storage capacity of 40 MW at another location in the province, SMGP’s Bataan BESS has a total capacity of 90 MW that could be tapped by the Luzon grid.The Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines said the available power supply in the Luzon grid on Friday was 11,417 MW and demand was 10,420 MW.
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