Thanks in part to a pipeline of projects due to come online by 2025, the company expects ‘a robust market’ for the division that has a book value of about $4 billion.
Electric utilities haven’t been able to maintain distribution systems operations at the needed level for years. As the need for decarbonization and increased electrification grows, they must figure out how to integrate distributed energy resources.
The 12 MW/48 MWh project consists of three independent systems located at one site — an AC-coupled battery energy storage system and two DC-coupled battery energy storage systems retrofitted to an existing solar PV facility
Using Hitachi Energy’s HVDC Light technology, SuedLink DC4 will transfer up to 2,000 MW of emission-free electricity, enough to power 5 million German households