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ADB commissions 2 MWh battery with solar array in Tuvalu

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has commissioned a 500 kW solar rooftop project in Tuvalu’s capital, Funafuti, along with a 2 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).

 

Tuvalu, an island nation midway between Hawaii and Australia, has commissioned a new solar-plus-storage project with the ADB, featuring a 500 kW, on-grid solar rooftop array and a 2 MWh BESS in the capital, Funafuti.

 

“The project is under the Pacific Renewable Energy Investment Facility and has … $6 million support,” stated the ADB. “It is [the] ADB’s first for Tuvalu’s energy sector. The project [has] also installed solar … in the [Tuvaluan] outer islands of Nui, Nukufetau, and Nukulaelae.”

 

In 2023, the ADB approved $7.8 million of additional finance for the Pacific’s first near-shore marine floating solar system at Funafuti’s Te Namo Lagoon. That project – co-financed by multilateral climate fund the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Ireland Trust Fund for climate resilience in small island states, and the United Kingdom’s Urban Resilience Trust Fund – aims to boost the region’s renewable energy capacity.

 

Remarking on the Funafuti solar-plus-storage site, the ADB said, “The project will provide clean and reliable electricity supply to the country’s capital and help achieve the government’s ambitious renewable energy targets. It is also improving the quality, reliability, and climate resilience of power service; reducing the country’s reliance on imported fuels for generation; and will eventually reduce the cost of generation by partially replacing diesel power with solar power.”

 

From pv magazine International.

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