NHOA Energy has launched construction on a battery energy storage system (BESS) project for independent power producer (IPP) ERG in Sicily, Italy.
NHOA Energy, the system integrator arm of NHOA Group, will deliver the turnkey project including the BESS equipment and operations and maintenance (O&M) over a five-year agreement.
The BESS will be deployed at ERG’s existing Vicarin wind farm in the province of Palermo, on the island of Sicily. It will help to maximise and smooth out the generation of the wind plant, better matching it with demand in the energy market. ERG is an IPP present in the European and US markets, in nine countries in total, with 3.7GW of operational capacity.
NHOA said the BESS project will be equipped with the latest technology to meet transmission system operator (TSO) Terna’s requirements for grid-connected storage systems. The TSO is one of the main actors in driving the Italian grid-scale market via a dedicated energy storage capacity market-like scheme, called MACSE (Premium access article), as well as opening up wholesale energy and ancillary services to the technology.
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NHOA has already deployed 70MW of projects that won contracts in Terna’s Fast Reserve ancillary service auctions, and is also providing a 39MWh project to an unnamed customer in central Italy. That latter project won a capacity market contract which NHOA Energy discussed with Energy-Storage.news at the time.
NHOA Group is in the process of being bought outright and de-listed by majority shareholder the Taiwan Cement Corporation (TCC). Giuseppe Artizzu, CEO of NHOA Energy, told Energy-Storage.news in a recent interview that the de-listing, amongst other things, will enable it to bid for larger projects.
NHOA Energy is the energy storage arm of Italy-headquartered NHOA, which is also active in the electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure space through separate business units, and is currently listed on the Euronext Paris exchange. TCC acquired shares in the company from Engie in 2021, under which it was known as Engie EPS from 2018.
