Source: energy-storage.news
Eyríkin Máritíus og Barbados hafa bæði hafið endurnýjanlega orkuöflun sem felur í sér orkugeymslu.
Sameiginlegt með öðrum eyjusvæðum um allan heim, treysta bæði löndin á að flytja inn jarðefnaeldsneyti með miklum kostnaði til að mæta orkuþörf sinni og hafa séð orkugeymslu pöruð við endurnýjanlega orku, einkum sólarorku, sem lausn.
The Central Electricity Board (CEB) of Mauritius in East Africa issued a request for proposal (RfP) last week for the purchase of electricity from hybrid renewable energy facilities, defined in this instance as solar PV-plus-battery storage.
The CEB, a government-owned and operated power generation and distribution agency, has boðið lokuðum tilboðum frá væntanlegum bjóðendum. The board plans to sign agreements for purchasing between 90MW to 110MW electricity.
Gert er ráð fyrir að fyrirmynd orkuveitu og kaupsamnings (ESPA) verði gerð aðgengileg bjóðendum innan mánaðar eftir að RfP opnar og bjóðendur hafa frest til 22. júní 2022 til að skila inn tilboðum.
Also advertising for international bidding a few days ago was another CEB RfP for purchase of electricity from small scale renewable energy hybrid facilities, this time seeking to procure 30MW to 50MW.
CEB byggði fyrstu rafhlöðukerfin í-stærð í Máritíus árið 2018, með fjármögnun frá marghliða græna loftslagssjóðnum (GCF), sem hefur hingað til stutt milljarða dollara verkefni í 150 löndum.
In Mauritius, the GCF part-funded the battery systems as part of a raft of measures to flýta fyrir þróun lítillar-kolefnisorku in the country, which meets 84 percent of its primary energy requirements with imported fossil fuels.
Coal and fuel oil imports in particular have been feeding rising greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) but the country it targeting for renewable energy to provide 35 percent of its energy demand by 2025 and then 60 percent by 2030.
After that first pair, which were each of 2MW power output and 1.12MWh capacity and built at two substations, a 14MW battery energy storage system (BESS) project split across four CEB substations was commissioned through the GCF programme late last year, also supported by the United Nations Development Programme.
14MW verkefnið, skipt í þrjár 4MW stöðvar og eina 2MW síðu, þurfti kostnaðaráætlun upp á um 10 milljónir Bandaríkjadala til að ljúka. Siemens Frakkland útvegaði BESS, sem er notað fyrir tíðnistjórnunarþjónustu.
CEB general manager Jean Donat said at the time that project was inaugurated that the era of renewable energy optimisation "is well on the way," in Mauritius, with the board having integrated more than 100MW of solar PV into the grid by then.
The country's government said in 2020 that it was committing funds to increase battery deployments to 40MW in a 2021-2022 budget announcement.
Innflutt jarðefnaeldsneyti skaðar efnahag eyjanna á meðan það mengar
Meanwhile the Caribbean island of Barbados is targeting 100 percent renewable energy use and carbon neutrality by 2030 and — as was the case with the UNDP's assessment of Mauritius — the government has described renewables with storage as a powerful way of democratising energy.
In seeking to create a framework for the procurement of renewable energy and/or energy storage, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is hosting a competitive solicitation for consultancy services to help develop it.
Issued a few days ago, interested parties have until 4 April 2022 to respond. The project is called "Support for the Design of Carbon Neutral Strategies in the Context of Energy Transition in Barbados".
Það býður upp á sjö mánaða samning um ráðgjafaþjónustu með áætlaða kostnaðaráætlun upp á 200 US$,000.
According to the IDB's summary, the island, with 280,000 inhabitants, imports fossil fuels for over 90 percent of its energy needs and in 2018 its fuel import bill stood at US253 million. Only 5.5 percent of electricity sold in the country came from renewable sources, abut 3.5 percent from rooftop solar PV and 2 percent from its sole 10MW utility-owned solar farm.
As well as the high cost of fuel, the impact can be felt in damage to Barbados' natural habitat, which as an economy dependent on tourism also has a knock-on economic effect.
Við umskipti í orkugeiranum mun orku- og atvinnuþróunarráðuneyti ríkisins þurfa að útvega mikla afkastagetu af endurnýjanlegri orku og þess vegna er þörf á að umgjörð sé til staðar.