Battery Energy Storage Systems
The objective of the Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) project is to support Kosovo’s energy security and transition to a more sustainable energy future through usage of energy storage systems for reserves, availability of the storage systems, and reduced cost of securing adequate electricity for Kosovo. BESS will provide flexibility necessary for Kosovo to enable integration of energy sources.
The Energy Storage Project consists of three activities:
The Frequency Restoration Response Activity aims to support KOSTT to own and operate approximately 45 megawatts (MW) (or 90 MWh) of energy reserves to cost-effectively smooth out imbalances in the electricity grid, ensuring the security of the interconnected power system while enabling the integration of electricity generated from different energy sources.
The Multi-Functional Energy Storage Activity (“MFES Activity”) aims to support a public entity to own and operate approximately 125 MW (or 250MWh) of one or more BESS and other potential electricity storage systems. The new public entity will be designed to enable frequency restoration reserves, energy arbitrage, or other potential energy storage services. Multi-Functional Energy Storage Entity (MFES) with its battery energy storage capability will enable integration of energy sources into Kosovo’s energy system and improve security of supply.
The Energy and Climate Policy Support Activity aims to support technical and administrative capacity building for Kosovo’s energy regulators along with Policy and Institutional Reforms (PIR) required to ensure the operating setting for energy storage in Kosovo.
Kosovo currently lacks workers with technical skills needed to meet current and future demand from employers in the energy and adjacent sectors.
To create a more sustainable energy sector, while also complementing and supporting the sustainability of the Energy Storage Project, the JETA Project aims to address an existing education and training system unable to respond to the current or future skill gaps in the energy sector and women’s low level of participation in this comparatively high- paying sector.
The American Catalyst Facility for Development Project (ACFD) aims to promote additional private-sector investments in Kosovo’s energy sector in collaboration with the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) by complementing MCC’s funding and leveraging private sector participation to scale a successful energy storage public entity launch and catalyzing complementary energy investments that increase energy security.
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