Russian Energy Ministry prepares bill on electrical storage systems

MOSCOW. Dec 5 (Interfax) - The concept of electrical storage systems will be enshrined in federal law, the corresponding bill has been posted by Russia's Energy Ministry on the unified portal of draft regulatory and legal acts.

As noted in the document's explanatory note, it is "aimed at establishing the fundamentals of the functioning of electrical energy storage systems in the electric power industry and provides for the definition of the concepts of an "electrical energy storage system."

In addition, it gives the government "the authority to establish the specifics for the functioning of electrical energy storage systems in the electric power industry, the conditions and procedure for participation by owners of electrical energy storage systems in the trading of electrical energy and capacity in the electrical energy markets."

Now, storage systems are used by consumers mainly to reduce consumption from the external network during peak load hours, as well as for uninterrupted power supply, the Ministry said. "Electrical energy storage systems are also used in a number of pilot projects (for example, the Burzyansky solar power plant with an 8 MWh electrical energy storage system, and the Rosseti Center , which ensures the reliability and quality of services for the transmission of electrical energy, etc.)," the Ministry said.

As reported, last year a roadmap for the introduction of storage systems was approved. The planned amount of financing for the roadmap's measures to develop energy storage systems in Russia through 2030 will be about 127 billion rubles, the Cabinet of Ministers said in the spring. Of this amount, almost 76% (approximately 96.5 billion rubles) is to be financed by business.

Previously, the government also entered into an agreement with Rosatom on development in this area; Renera LLC, an integrator for the development of power storage systems, is responsible for this within the state corporation. The company is implementing a gigafactory project in the Kaliningrad region with a capacity of four GWh per year. In addition, last year, a production site with 150 MWh of capacity opened in Moscow.