This ensures power quality is maintained and that it reaches power users all over the country.
“This can even support equal-opportunity industrialization in many provinces where historically, no industrial plants would locate because of poor power quality,” Ang said.
On top of that, Ang said that battery energy storage facilities can facilitate the integration of renewable energy sources such as wind or solar into the grid.
It can address the inherent problem of renewables, which is intermittence, which significantly aggravates the poor quality of power in the grid.
“Our country’s challenge with renewables is that it is intermittent, because of its nature. But with strategically located battery storage facilities, this can be mitigated and renewables can become more viable. This will help the transition to more renewable sources of energy in the future,” Ang explained.
The immediate aim though, is to address power quality issues. The battery energy storage projects will be used as regulating reserve type of ancillary service for the country’s major power transmission firm, National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), to specifically mitigate grid frequency fluctuation and voltage issues.
Ang said that some of its battery energy storage facilities are now in the advanced stages of completion. The facilities, which will make up the company’s total committed capacity of over 1000 MW, will be located in several strategic sites from Luzon to Mindanao where power quality mitigations are required.