Several companies announced to establish a solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant with a capacity of 50 MW in the city of Saudi Aflaj, which will be the first utility-scale PV plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Quite interesting that Saudi Arabia is expecting a growth of energy demand rising by 8 percent annually and is expected to be 120 GW by 2030.
Click HERE for a news report.
During my visit of Dammam (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) this week (training on IEC 61850) I was (by chance) contacted by a senior engineer (involved in gas related automation) who walked by outside our meeting room, stopped, and asked what we were doing. We talked about this and that.
Then he asked me how we can store PV power … this led us to the situation in Germany where we have several MW scale projects that convert PV or Wind Power into gas. He was very impressed that this is happening in big scale.
Sure, we have a lot of renewable power in Germany.
What to do with all the power? Convert to gas! Yes!
Click HERE to a report on the largest system today in Hamburg (1.5 MW).
Click HERE for some explanations of the basics of power-to-gas.
The gas and heat/cooling domains will find that the IEC 61850 can be used for many applications in these areas – to benefit from the standards used in electric power systems.
Click HERE for some discussion of using IEC 61850 (UCA 2.0) for the gas industry.
More to come. Keep tuned to the IEC 61850 blog.
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