The firm has launched construction on the five battery energy storage system (BESS) projects totalling 74MW/147 MWh which will connect to solar facilities, it announced yesterday.

Four projects in Portugal totalling 60.5MW/120.4MWh will connect to Galp’s Alcoutim solar farms and will be part-financed by the government’s €100 million (US$115.6 million) scheme, funded by the EU’s Recovery and Resilience framework.

Those projects will build on an existing 5MW/20MWh project that was completed earlier this year, pictured above and deployed by system integrator Powin, an Oregon-based company which is now in administration.

In Spain, Galp will install a 14MW/28 MWh BESS at a solar PV plant in Manzanares, in the Castilla-La Mancha region.

The operation and optimization of the BESS projects will be directed by Galp’s Control Center, a dispatch centre approved by REN and REE, in Portugal and Spain, respectively. The centre centralises real-time management of photovoltaic parks, energy storage units and industrial consumption, maximising the value of the energy produced, Galp said.

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