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    The Caribbean Island of Curacao Installing 25 MW Wartsila BESS to Mitigate Risk of Brownouts and Blackouts

    May 22, 2024
    Wartsila is scheduled to deliver the equipment in Q1 2025, and the project is expected to be fully operational by the end of Q2 2025
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    Aqualectra, the Caribbean island of Curacao's government-owned utilities company, has partnered with Wartsila to install a 25 MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) on the island. 

    The BESS, in partnership with Wartsila's digital energy platform, will provide grid stability and reliability, reduce unserved energy, smooth the intermittency of renewables, and help mitigate the risk of brownouts and blackouts. 

    “Aqualectra’s strategic objective is to provide the community with affordable, sustainable, and reliable electricity. The Wartsila solution will support all these objectives through reducing generation costs, enabling the integration of renewables, and decreasing CO2 emissions while providing high reliability,” said Joseph Everon, Advisor to the CTO at Aqualectra.

    Wartsila is scheduled to deliver the equipment in Q1 2025, and the project is expected to be fully operational by the end of Q2 2025.

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