Toshiba Corporation has supplied two lithium-ion energy storage systems to Kyushu Electric Power Co in Japan as part of an island-based renewable energies demonstration project.
The systems will be installed at substations on the islands of Tanegashima and Amamioshima at the southwestern tip of the Japanese island of Kyushu. The maximum output and capacity of the systems are 3MW and 1.161MWh for Tanegashima Island and 2MW and 0.78MWh for Amamioshima Island.