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A storage battery project has not yet proven its effectiveness at scale, according to Bob Rudd, the chief commercial officer at Plus Power. The battery's capacity will help address the issue of clean energy curtailment, also known as over-generation, for Hawaiian Electric, Rudd said.
Plus Power located the project near a substation connected to three other power plants so the battery “can be AAA to jump-start those other plants,” Keefe said. The combination of all these abilities in one site — capacity, grid services, black start — leads Keefe to call Kapolei “the most advanced battery energy storage facility on the planet.”
The Kapolei Energy Storage facility on Oahu is a major utility-scale battery energy storage system. It is the first of its kind to be used by a major utility to balance the grid, providing fast frequency response, synthetic inertia, and black start capabilities.
Brandon Keefe, Executive Chairman of Plus Power, hailed this achievement as a “landmark milestone in the transition to clean energy.” The KES battery project, spread across 8 acres near Honolulu, brings a total power capacity of 185 megawatts and 565 megawatt-hours of electricity, serving as an electrical “shock absorber” for Oahu’s power grid.
Kapolei alone constitutes about 17% of Oahu’s peak capacity. Hawaiian Electric needed it to take on more responsibility than batteries elsewhere have ever had to.
The KES batteries play a crucial role in reducing the curtailment of renewable energy by 69%, allowing Hawaiian Electric to integrate 10% more new utility-scale renewables than previously projected. Additionally, the project is estimated to save customers money, reducing electric bills by an average of $0.28 per month over a 20-year contract life.
