Image: Aggreko. The first battery energy storage system deployed to help stabilise the electricity grid in Turkey could help show the country’s energy sector that more rapid uptake of renewable energy can be feasible and cost-effective.
Turkey’s regulators are currently making provisions to allow batteries and other storage to play a wider role in the electricity system, having produced its first set of regulations early this year, but Aggreko appears to be first across the finish line to achieve deployment of a project connected to the network.
Aggreko’s battery storage solution deployed at the site is modular and could be expanded to support more storage, or reconfigured at “short notice” to directly support local renewable generation, while the system is effectively also moveable and could be redeployed to another site if the need is greater there, Wazni said.