Wärtsilä to optimise and decarbonise gold mine power station in Suriname with 7.8 MW / 7.8 MWh energy storage system
Wärtsilä Corporation, Press release, 27 January 2022 at 10:30 AM EETThe technology group Wärtsilä will supply a 7.8-megawatt (MW) / 7.8-megawatt hour (MWh) energy storage system to a leading gold mining company to help achieve its climate targets and decarbonisation goals at a mine in Suriname. This is the first utility-scale energy storage system to be built in Suriname and Wärtsilä’s first energy storage project in the country. The order was booked to Wärtsilä order intake in Q4, 2021. The facility is expected to become operational in late 2022.
The integrated energy storage system