Chinese company A123 Energy Solutions has announced the commissioning of a 500-kilowatt Grid Storage Solution (GSS) for Dongfang Electric Machinery Co., Ltd, one of the largest manufacturers of power generating equipment in China. The GSS system is connected to the microgrid at Hangzhou facility and will be performing renewable integration for the site, where it is co-located with wind, PV, and conventional generation resources. This energy storage installation, A123 Energy’s second deployment in China, is not containerized, but instead is housed in one of the site’s existing buildings.
This type of GSS is well suited for accommodating fluctuations in variable energy resources like wind or solar, and can be used to improve the efficiency of traditional thermal generators as well.
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