EPS: New Storage System Microgrid Connected In Sardinia, Reducing Emissions By 14 Thousand Tons Of Co2

Electro Power Systems S.A. (“EPS”), a technology pioneer in energy-storage systems and microgrids listed on the French-regulated market Euronext Paris, announces the starting of the commissioning of a new energy storage system microgrid-connected in Sardinia, Italy.

EPS realized in partnership with FZSoNick (FIAMM) for ENAS, the entity managing the entire water supply of the region, a hybrid energy storage system connected to the Ottana Experimental Solar Farm, consisting of a concentrated solar power (CSP) farm integrated with thermal storage with a capacity of 14 MWh and a concentrated photovoltaic plant (CPV).

The microgrid, developed in collaboration with the University of Cagliari and Sardegna Ricerche, has a total installed capacity of 1.2 MW hybridized with 0.6 MWp of CPV, 0.6 MWp of CSP and 0.5 MWh of EPS storage system which is aimed at the stabilization of the intermittent renewable sources.

The system realized by EPS couples renewables and energy storage, enabling the microgrid to reduce emissions by more than 14 thousand tons of CO2 per year. The plant will be run by ENAS and will significantly contribute to the reduction of its energy annual demand.

“Such installation represents the flexibility of the EPS technology in any application, also with the most innovative and technologically challenging microgrids” commented Carlalberto Guglielminotti, Chief Executive Officer of EPS “as this microgrid demonstrates how Italian islands can represent a real open-air laboratory for a new energy model, distributed, sustainable and competitive”.

The commissioning of the microgrid will be completed in April 2017.