Published: 16 Dec 2020, 06:19
By:
Andy Colthorpe
25MW of the 70MW awarded to ENGIE will be delivered from the company s large vehicle-to-grid (V2G) project underway in Turin. Image: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
The award of contracts to battery storage developers in a recent auction by Italy’s transmission system operator proves the technology’s competitiveness in providing grid services once again, an analyst has said.
Terna, which manages the Italian electricity grid, awarded just under 250MW of contracts to provide the Fast Reserve service to the grid a few days ago. It assigned three tranches of contracts, in the Central and Northern regions, in the Centre-South and on the island of Sardinia. The systems are expected to be online by 2023, having won five-year contracts to the end of 2027.