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Can battery energy storage systems stabilize Vietnam's grid?

Sunita Dubey and Hyunjung Lee share how Vietnam is leveraging Battery Energy Storage Systems to stabilize their grid and accelerate the energy transition.

What is battery energy storage system (BESS)?

Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) play a pivotal role in addressing these challenges by minimising the intermittency of renewables, enhancing grid flexibility, and ensuring reliable power supply. In a significant development, Vietnam Electricity (EVN) has secured approval for its first pilot BESS project with a capacity of 50 MW/50MWh.

How can battery energy storage systems improve power supply?

The variability of renewable energy sources, combined with the increasing demand often results in unreliable supply and frequent power shortages. Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) play a pivotal role in addressing these challenges by minimising the intermittency of renewables, enhancing grid flexibility, and ensuring reliable power supply.

What will Vietnam's energy future look like in 2030?

The government anticipates a 10-12% annual surge through 2030 in the nation's power consumption. This rapidly expanding energy demand presents a significant challenge to Vietnam's transforming energy landscape, especially considering the urgent need to reduce global emissions and utilise renewable alternatives.

How can wind energy be used in Saudi Arabia?

By increasing the hub height and selecting a high average wind speed, the output power can be increased. Effective utilization of wind energy is the second promising source of renewable energy alternatives in Saudi Arabia that is considered seriously.

Why is it important to assess wind resources in Saudi Arabia?

Due to Saudi Arabia's large land area and the vast variability of wind speed over regions and seasons, it is very important to accurately assess the potential of wind resources in the region so as to harness maximum power output.

Can a large wind turbine be installed in Saudi Arabia?

A thorough assessment and analysis for monthly available wind speed and power density at 100 m height for different locations in Saudi Arabia is carried out. Based on the estimated wind speed and power levels, the suitability of the installation of large, medium and small-scale wind turbines in 12 different sites considered in the work is analysed.

What is the average wind speed in Riyadh?

From the table it is clear that 9 out of 12 sites have an annual average wind speed more than 3.5 m/s, whereas that for Riyadh, Gasim and Nejran the wind speed is lower than 3.5 m/s. The highest average wind speed is recorded in Haql city which clocks a wind speed greater than 2 m/s when compared to other sites.

How much energy will Saudi Arabia generate by 2032?

The Saudi government has announced an ambitious plan to generate 54 GW (including 41 GW of solar power, geothermal, waste-to-energy and 9 GW of wind) of power from renewable energy sources by 2032with an investment amounting to $108.9 billion.

How much electricity does Saudi Arabia need?

In other words, the electricity demand of Saudi Arabia is rapidly advancing for example from 114,161,021.00 MWh in 2000 to 287,442,172.00 MWh in Dec 2016. Thus in order to meet the future electricity demand of the Kingdom, it is essential to enhance the power generation capacity to 122.6 GW by 2030.