Doing so requires a modification of the venture’s grid connection, and the prices of connecting a grid-scale battery to the grid are nonetheless to be absolutely clarified by the transmission system operator (TSO).
Mirko Medenica, head of CEE and Southeast Europe improvement for Woodburn, expects the rules to be finalised by TSO Hrvatski operator prijenosnog sustava (Croatian transmission system operator, or HOPS) within the first 15-20 days of September.
“We now have some expectations round what these will appear to be however for now we’re designing our BESS venture to be 25-30% of the scale of the photo voltaic PV plant,” Medenica stated.
Efficient rules and a secure enterprise case
Medenica additionally famous that the rules round BESS know-how offering capability market, balancing and ancillary providers on the grid has already been finalised and the know-how is eligible to supply all of them.
Assuming the rules and price of connection don’t have an effect on the enterprise case of the BESS, he expects the corporate to have the ability to attain business operation on the venture round Q3 2024. In the meantime, the photo voltaic PV plant will begin development in September of this yr and can take round three months.
The corporate then plans to use an analogous mannequin to different co-located initiatives in Croatia. Woodburn’s background is principally in biomass era however in recent times it has more and more expanded into photo voltaic and wind.
The BESS venture’s participation out there will probably be managed by an aggregator whereas Woodburn has not but settled on a BESS know-how supplier. The irony is that the aggregators lively within the Croatian market originate from Czechia, the place BESS remains to be not allowed to supply capability market or balancing providers on the grid. As such, Czechia has seen subsequent to no new grid-scale vitality storage introduced in recent times.
The Ministry of Economic system and Sustainable Growth in Croatia issued a €20 million (US$21.7 million) funding name for renewable vitality, vitality effectivity and vitality storage initiatives earlier this yr, and Medenica stated that subsequent yr will see one devoted to co-located initiatives.
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