Samsung SDI Comes to the Rescue to Support California Energy Industry with Ultra-Fast Battery Delivery for the World’s Largest Battery-Based ESS Project
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On February 24, 2017, the world’s largest Energy Storage System (ESS),
a 30 MW, 120 MWh installation powered by AES Energy Storage’s
Advancion platform and Samsung SDI batteries was unveiled. A second
Advancion array utilizing Samsung SDI batteries, a 7.5 MW, 30 MWh
installation, was completed nearby and unveiled during the same event.
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Late 2016, Samsung SDI was awarded to supply a staggering 70% (240 MWh
out of 340 MWh) of all the batteries for all the ESS projects awarded
to address regional reliability concerns in Southern California
(including the above mentioned and just unveiled installations).
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Samsung SDI delivered this immense batteries volume across all ESS
projects in a remarkably shortened 4 months period from order, to
manufacturing, delivery, installation and commissioning.
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With this unprecedented success, Samsung SDI strengthens its position
as the #1 battery supplier of energy storage solutions in North
America through strategic cooperation with key energy and ESS global
leaders awarded as part of the lightning speed procurements.
Samsung
SDI (KRX:006400) officially announced that it has successfully
delivered the world-largest volume of its most innovative batteries to
ESS (Energy Storage System) projects in California, USA. Jointly working
with global top energy storage solution providers such as AES, Samsung
SDI has supplied a total of 240MWh of ESS Li-ion batteries and
associated Battery Management Systems.
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Samsung SDI Comes to the Rescue to Support California Energy Industry with Ultra-Fast Battery Delivery for the World’s Largest Battery-Based ESS Project. On February 24, 2017, the world’s largest Energy Storage System (ESS), a 30 MW, 120 MWh installation powered by AES Energy Storage’s Advancion platform and Samsung SDI batteries was unveiled. A second Advancion array utilizing Samsung SDI batteries, a 7.5 MW, 30 MWh installation, was completed nearby and unveiled during the same event. (Photo: Business Wire)
This 240 MWh ESS portfolio of projects is the world’s largest volume of
its kind ever, and comprises around 700,000 battery 94Ah cells
manufactured by Samsung SDI. The AES installations alone constitute over
60 percent of delivered batteries, a total of 150 MWh comprising 440,000
of such cells, making it the largest Li-ion battery-based ESS
installation in the world.
Samsung SDI pointed out that the capacity totaling 240 MWh corresponds
to the energy necessary to power 40,000 households for 4 hours.
In 2015, the USA ESS market was 167 MWh, while the 2016 market rose to
590 MWh, with the recent Samsung SDI related ESS projects volume
representing almost half, and the AES installations representing about
25% of the US market in 2016. In aggregate, Samsung SDI batteries
accounted for more than 40% of the US electric power ESS market last
year.
For these exceptional projects, Samsung SDI supplied the ESS batteries
to its partners who in turn, provided the full turn-key installation to
their final customers.
One key benefit of these projects is to contribute to California’s
Resource Adequacy needs, enabling more renewable energy penetration by
storing in Samsung SDI’s ESS batteries some of the renewable electricity
generated during the day, and releasing that electricity onto the
electric grid when demand is at its maximum.
Such large-scale ESS projects can be used to substitute non-renewable
energy resources, as well as to complement natural gas power plants
through optimization.
Samsung SDI brought its key differentiators to make these projects
possible with its most innovative technologies, its top quality and
safety, as well as its most advanced manufacturing capabilities; for a
seamless integration from cells to modules to racks.
AES Energy Storage President John Zahurancik pointed out that “A key
element of successfully delivering the largest ESS project in the world
has been having trusted relationships with our suppliers to ensure a
steady supply of quality components for our Advancion platform. We’re
pleased to have had Samsung SDI, a certified Advancion supplier for
several years, provide batteries to power this record-breaking project.”
In 2015, B3, the Japanese secondary battery research company, presented
the ESS market prospect and their report established Samsung SDI as the
#1 ESS battery provider with market share at 18%.
Most market research companies agree that the global ESS market is
expected to rapidly expand -from 2.3 GWh in 2016 to 14.8 GWh in 2020-
over 60 percent of annual average growth.
In particular, the USA market is regarded as the pivotal influencer of
the worldwide ESS market with volume expansion -from 590MWh in 2016 to
4.2 GWh in 2020- driven by its continuing improvement and modernization
needs of the transmission and distribution assets as well as its
continuous renewable energy expansion.
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