Toshiba announced Japan’s largest lithium-ion energy storage system – 40 MW and 40 MWh.
40 MWh is like 1,500 electric cars and of couse full power of 40 MW can be provided for up to one hour.
Construction work already began and this large scale battery, consisting of Toshiba’s SCiB cells, will go live in February 2016.
The order for the ESS was placed by Tohoku Electric Power Company to improve supply-demand balance of renewable energy.