United Renewable Energy (“URE”, or “the Company”, 3576 TT), won the tender for ESS procurement for Taipower’s South Yan-Tian (SYT) system project, the total capacity is 15MW/15MWh, this project is expected to complete within one year. URE is responsible for system integration, and will work with international renowned battery company Saft, well known electrical and engineering company Shihlin Electric and global certification organization United Laboratories. With excellent products and integration ability, URE won the tender for the procurement.

The energy-storage system at SYT will be coupled with a 150MW solar photo-voltaic (PV) site at the same location. The combined facility will become Taiwan’s largest PV-plus-storage project, utilizing 161,000 volt high-power transmission lines connected to the grid. URE’s 15MW/15MWh energy-storage system will enable Taipower to perform grid-scale automatic frequency control, photo-voltaic (PV) smoothing, frequency regulation, and ancillary services.

The Saft’s battery will be used in this project. Saft is internationally renowned French battery company; it was established in 1918, with footprint across 49 countries, over 4000 employees. Saft’s customers include Boeing, Airbus, French Ministry of Arm, United State Department of Defense. In Taiwan, Saft’s customers include Taiwan High Speed Rail, Metro, and Taipower. 

The power conversion equipment from Shihlin Electric is used for this project. Shihlin Electric focus on R&D and manufacturing of electrical related products, with experience and technology accumulated over 60s in the industry, Shihlin Electric provide products to domestic and overseas customers such as Power generation plant and public infrastructure projects and high tech companies.

Chairman of URE Dr. Sam Hong pointed out the success of tender shows Taipower’s acknowledgement of URE and partners advance technology in ESS field, include system integration ability and excellent quality in batteries. URE aimed to become ESS system integrator with most complete and safest products in Taiwan.

URE’s Vice President Jorge Tseng added, “In addition to securing the SYT contract, URE is dedicated to providing co-generation solutions, including PV plus storage, for Taiwan’s large energy users, carbon reduction/green energy certification services, and energy systems powering Taipower’s AFC or automatic frequency control ancillary-services, a trading platform scheduled to go live in July, 2021. We’re confident the SYT win will power URE’s next phase of growth servicing our global customers with class-leading storage solutions”.