Kokam Co., Ltd., a global provider of lithium-ion battery solutions and a subsidiary of SolarEdge Technologies, has entered into contract to supply Electricité de Tahiti (EDT), a subsidiary of ENGIE, with a battery energy storage system (BESS) serving as Tahiti’s first virtual synchronous generator (VSG).
Composed of a 15-megawatt/10.4-megawatt-hour battery system, the state-of-the-art BESS will replace EDT’s spinning reserve diesel generators in order to cost-effectively reduce diesel fuel consumption, allow more renewable energy and strengthen the grid.
“Through the VSG technology, EDT acts on its desire to decarbonize electricity production and contributes to the shift to carbon neutrality in French Polynesia,” said François-Xavier de FROMENT, CEO of EDT.
