Tucson Electric Power (TEP) has commissioned E.ON Climate and Renewables to develop a groundbreaking energy storage project. According to a statement from Landis+Gyr, it has won an order to supply a suitable storage system for the project. The Swiss energy management company decided on a containerised lithium titanate oxide battery system, which has a 10 megawatt storage capacity. TEP is adding a total of 20 megawatts of energy storage capacity through two projects to help balance load and regulate frequency on its distribution system.
“The TEP storage project is driven by the growing need for rapid response to changes in energy supply and demand,” said Mike Cooper, general manager of Distributed Generation and Energy Storage solutions at Landis+Gyr. The battery solution will also enable TEP to become more flexible.
The storage system will help TEP study how to integrate a growing portfolio of renewable generating resources and should assist it in achieving its goal of generating 30 per cent of its power from renewable resources by 2030.
Landis+Gyr’s energy storage system comes with its broader Energy and Capacity Optimization System (ECOS), which combines communication, control and data management technologies to manage a distribution network efficiently.