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The Ile de Romainville Solar Park is a 5-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant with battery storage in the Republic of Seychelles.
The project includes an energy storage system with a capacity of 5MW and 3.3 megawatt-hours (MWh), allowing for the safe and stable supply of electricity from the PV power plant to the main island of Mahé and further increasing the resilience of the national grid of the Seychelles.
The project was financed by Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), and is being developed by Masdar and the Seychelles’ Public Utilities Corporation (PUC).
The PV array is specifically designed to maximise the use of available land, while allowing for maintenance of the wind turbines and minimising any shading losses resulting from them.
The new solar PV project was constructed on the same island that hosts five of the eight wind turbines of Masdar’s first project in the Seychelles, the Port Victoria Wind Farm, which has been operational since 2013.
The Seychelles currently relies on fossil fuels, which account for around 20 percent of its imports, to meet its electricity demand. It is estimated the Ile de Romainville solar project will save approximately 2 million liters of fuel annually.
Saves approximately 2 million liters of fuel annually
Displaces approximately 6,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually
Installed battery storage capacity of 5MW and 3.3MWh
The Seychelles Government is committed to providing adequate, reliable and affordable energy to meet future energy consumption needs and to underpin strong economic growth through consumable energy initiatives.
South of the equator, on the western Indian Ocean, the Seychelles are located in a tropical idyll. With its dream beaches, the archipelago is considered a holiday paradise. But climate change does not stop at an island paradise - rising sea levels and increasingly extreme weather events threaten the existence of the small islands. In order to preserve the idyll in the long term, sustainable solutions must be created. To this end, the island nation is relying on green energy: a 50,000 square metre solar park with a total output of 6 megawatts was built on Île De Romainville in front of the capital Victoria on Mahé. In addition, there are five wind turbines with an output of 750 kilowatts each.
Previously, electricity on Mahé was generated almost exclusively from fossil fuels. Now, the huge solar park and wind turbines ensure that seven million kilowatt hours of green electricity are generated every year - enough for around 2,000 households.
"The Seychelles, with its many hours of sunshine and exposed location, is the ideal location for photovoltaic systems and wind turbines," says Alexander Wahlig, Senior Systems Engineer at Rolls-Royce. But even in the island paradise, the sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow. This leads to fluctuations in electricity production which poses stress on the power generators and utility grid. "And that''s where our mtu EnergyPacks come in," says Wahlig. With an output of 5,100 kVA and a storage capacity of 3,363 kWh, they ensure that the fluctuations in generation are balanced and the security of supply is increased.
"With the mtu EnergyPacks, the generated power of the solar power plant gains significantly in reliability for us. They ensure that the power supply on the island remains stable and thus form the backbone of our green energy production," says Dr Laurent Sam of Public Utilities Corporation, the grid operator in Seychelles.
mtu is a product and solution brand of Rolls-Royce, providing world-class power solutions and complete life-cycle support.
Masdar said it has started operating the 5 MW Ile de Romainville PV project in the Seychelles. The installation is backed by 3.3 MWh of storage capacity.
The Ile de Romainville solar plant
Masdar, an Abu Dhabi-based renewables developer, has switched on a 5 MW solar plant in the Seychelles. The Ile de Romainville project includes 3.3 MW of battery energy storage and a 33 kV system to transmit electricity to the main island of Mahe.
The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) financed the project, which was jointly developed by Masdar and Seychelles-based Public Utilities Corp. (PUC). It is part of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and ADFD Project Facility, which is an initiative to scale up renewables in developing countries. It is only the second clean-energy project in the Seychelles, according to Masdar.
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