One of Greenko’s projects in India is the Renewable Energy Project for Greenko’s Pinnapuram Integrated Renewable Energy Storage Project (IRESP). This is the largest Gigawatt-scale project in the world where the different elements involved in the tenders are of solar, wind, and pumped storage type. The project is situated in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India and it seeks to provide renewable power that is reliable, schedulable and cheap.
Greenko possesses a great amount of experience in investing and constructing renewable energy generating facilities such as wind, solar and hydroelectric power plants indicating that the company is one of the major players in India’s green economy. This project is situated in Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh; it is one of the biggest steps towards implementation of renewable energy source mix with storage technology making this project one of the biggest projects in the world. It is conceived to be used for the storage as well as generation of solar and wind energy to support India’s large-scale renewable energy plan. Being one of the largest renewable sources of power on the globe, it has been hoped will greatly contribute to South Africa’s diversification from fossil fuels and decreasing its emission of greenhouse gasses.
Pinnapuram Integrated Renewable Energy Storage Project factsheet
Architect: Greenko Group.
Constructor: Greenko is managing it with its own resources, though it has hired specialists for achieving the coordination of the wind and solar to compliment the pumped hydro storage systems.
Start Date: Construction on the project was in May 2022
Cost: $3 billion
Location: This integrated project is situated in the Kurnool District-Andhra Pradesh.
Capacity of battery storage: The project employs a pumped hydro storage system with a 1. 2 GW capacity, not a typical battery.
Wind power generation: It’s equipped with 400 MW of wind power.
Solar generation: It also ensures the provision of 2 GW of solar photovoltaic (PV) plants
Significance
Some of the components incorporated in the Pinnapuram Integrated Renewable Energy Storage Project comprises of a 10. private would be an 8 GWh pumped hydro storage system, 3 GW of solar power and 550 MW of wind capacity. This makes it very unique renewable energy project because it can store energy and supply the energy in the market as it is required.
The project aims at reducing the emission of CO2 by 15 million tons per year, which is the same as canceling the emissions of three million cars.
Greenko’s plans are also more extensive; in building a 50 GWh energy cloud platform by 2025 and then expanding that to 100 by 2027. The company is also aiming at having developed 10 GW of green hydrogen production capacity by the year 2030.
Challenges
The construction of Greenko’s 23GW renewable energy storage project in Andhra Pradesh which was earlier scheduled to be completed by 2023 did not become operational by then due to the following reasons.
However, there were certain issues, mainly regarding the very nature of the project: it aimed at implementing two production systems with the use of solar energy, wind energy, and pumped storage hydropower facilities. These technologies were integrated in this project, particularly the large-scale hydro storage system; the pump storage which is 1. 68 GW makes up this project technically challenging. However, the coordination of the infrastructure needed to manage the 3GW solar and 550MW wind energy generation added to its timeline.
Once completed, the Pinnapuram Integrated Renewable Energy Storage Project will add to the recognition of India as a leading player in renewable power integration and it will provide a roadmap in large scale energy storage systems for other nations to follow.
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