Hawaiian Electric introduced it’s constructing the island of Maui’s first giant standalone load-shifting battery vitality storage system. The Waena BESS will allow the deliberate retirement of 4 producing items on the utility’s Kahului Energy Plant, an oil energy plant.
Permitted by the Public Utilities Fee in December 2023, the Waena BESS shall be a grid-connected 40-MW/160-MWh battery vitality storage system that shall be situated on the company-owned property alongside Pulehu Highway in Central Maui. The Waena BESS is a part of the corporate’s total plans to cut back its total carbon footprint and to make use of renewable sources to generate 100% of electrical energy by 2045. Presently, 41% of Maui County’s electrical energy comes from renewables.
Anticipated to come back on-line by 2027, the Waena BESS shall be tied into the corporate’s Waena Switchyard and may have the aptitude to function energy-shifting useful resource that may retailer and dispatch large-scale renewable sources as wanted.
The Waena Switchyard and Waena BESS are an integral section within the retirement of Kahului Energy Plant’s 4 steam-generating items that presently present energy and system stability on the island’s transmission system.
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