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Colombia’s first solar energy storage system operational

Energy company Celsia has installed the 1 MW/2 MWh system at the Celsia Solar Palmira 2 PV farm in Valle del Cauca.

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Luis Ini

Dec 20, 2024

Colombian energy company Celsia has announced the launch of what it described as the first solar energy storage system in the country, at the Celsia Solar Palmira 2 PV farm, in Valle del Cauca.

Celsia said the 1 MW/2 MWh lithium ferro-phosphate battery energy storage system (BESS) is operating for two hours from 6 p.m. and is “adjustable to any time of the night.”

The 6m-wide BESS container will hold more than 120 battery packs and an autonomous system with a control manager that operates automatically, plus a monitoring system “to guarantee the operational safety of the equipment and [offer] mitigation for any type of emergency.”

Celsia Solar Palmira 2 is a 9.9 MW solar site “of which 4.9 MW is delivered to the client and the rest to the National Interconnected [electricity] System,” according to Celsia. It features 23,610 solar panels in the form of a roof, “which allows for an increase in power by 5% compared to conventional locations,” the developer stated.

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