US-based energy storage technology provider Powin Energy has claimed it has a pipeline close to 500MWh of projects under contract, including recent awards totalling 70MWh for customers in North and Central America and in Italy.
Powin supplies lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries for utility-scale energy storage projects, delivering large-scale systems into strategically important markets. The company, which in 2017 was awarded some big contracts in leading storage market territories including a 26.5MWh project in California and a 52.8MWh roll out of systems in Canada, made a ‘pivot’ towards the end of that year from developing projects to a focus on technology provision.
An update from the company issued this week spells out just how active it currently is. There is a sizeable microgrid system under construction, coupled with an islanded natural gas generator in Mexico, using a 12MW/12MWh battery storage system. Aiding operations at a manufacturing plant, the system will provide voltage and frequency regulation as well as emergency spinning reserve for the manufacturing facility.
In Italy, Powin will provide a battery system for deployment at a coal power plant, a 10MW/10MWh system to deliver frequency regulation services to the grid. The unnamed customer is a large utility company. In Energy-Storage.news’ recent video round table feature, ‘Silver bullets are for werewolf movies: Being real about energy storage’, panellist Marek Kubik of rival storage tech provider Fluence used an example of a project he had worked on in Chile to illustrate how batteries deployed at existing coal plants can work together to boost efficiency and by extension play a role in emissions reduction.
Powin also highlighted the completion of two recent projects in Ontario, Canada, a market which Energy-Storage.news has pointed out many other providers and developers have also spotted the potential of. While many recent headlines have focused on the commercial and industrial sector and the business case for ‘peak shaving’ by businesses that pay high rates for electricity due to Ontario’s Global Adjustment Charge policy, Powin’s two completed projects deliver ancillary services for the province’s IESO (Independent electricity system operator).
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