Fortum and Saft Launch Energy Storage Pilot at CHP Plant

Finnish energy company Fortum is launching the Nordic countries’ biggest energy storage pilot project.

The €2 million ($2.2 million) project will incorporate megawatt-scale lithium-ion (li-ion) battery storage technology from French company Saft.

Saft’s li-ion containerized battery system with a nominal output of 2 MW and 1 MWh of energy capacity will be installed at Fortum’s Suomenoja combined heat and power (CHP) plant (pictured), in Finland’s second largest city Espoo.

The battery project is an extension of a Fortum experiment started in March in which a virtual power plant based on demand flexibility is being built together with customers.The capacity of this plant will be offered to national grid company Fingrid to maintain a continuous power balance in the electricity system.

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Source: Decentralized Energy