SINGAPORE – The Republic will achieve its target of having “giant batteries” to store at least 200 megawatts (MW) of energy three years earlier when South-east Asia’s largest energy storage system on Jurong Island is up and running by November.
The 200-megawatt fleets of container-like batteries can power the daily electricity needs of about 16,700 four-room Housing Board flats in a single discharge cycle, said the Energy Market Authority (EMA) on Wednesday.
The system is also be one of the fastest of its kind to be constructed and deployed.
The EMA had previously set a target for the country to deploy at least 200MW of energy storage beyond 2025, as part of the nation’s shift to renewables and to provide reserves to the national power grid, when needed.
In response to queries from The Straits Times about meeting the deployment target earlier, an EMA spokesman said:…