The first “community energy storage system” in Cyprus has been delivered and commissioned by Germany’s Autarsys, the company has announced.
Autarsys said the lithium-ion NCM battery system, with a capacity of 75kWh and an inverter that can produce up to 30kW, “aims to be a test ground for how to scale up grid-connected renewable energy” on the Mediterranean island.
The company said it designed and implemented a substation in a neighbourhood in Nicosia connected to homes with rooftop PV systems of 3kWp.
The pilot project is part of the European Union-backed “promotion of higher penetration of distributed PV through storage for all” (StoRES) programme.
Autarsys said its intelligent energy management systems “are critical to the development of renewable energies and make wind and solar powered fields more energy-efficient and cost-effective”.
Autarsys co-founder Matthias Ross said the company hoped to show “energy storage systems combined with photovoltaic fields can be the solution for Mediterranean islands that want to decrease their reliance on imported fossil fuels and increase their energy independence”.
