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Wärtsilä’s to support Kentucky Municipal Energy Agency
Technology group Wärtsilä has signed a ten-year optimised maintenance agreement with the Kentucky Municipal Energy Agency (KYMEA) in the United States. The agreement covers KYMEA’s new 75 MW power plant, Energy Center I, scheduled for commissioning in 2027. The plant will be powered by four Wärtsilä 50SG engines and will play an important role in…
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Wärtsilä to deliver Australia’s largest DC-coupled hybrid battery system
Technology group Wärtsilä will deliver a large energy storage system in Australia, which will be Wärtsilä’s second DC-coupled project in the country. Significantly, this will be the largest DC-coupled hybrid battery system in the National Electricity Market (NEM), reflecting a growing trend toward hybridisation of storage assets with co-located renewable generation. Once operational, the battery…
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Wärtsilä debuts GEMS Pulse, a new software solution to enhance revenue for BESS customers through cell-to-fleet data analytics
Technology group Wärtsilä has launched GEMS Pulse, a breakthrough predictive analytics solution designed to increase the financial and performance output of energy storage facilities. Batteries generate thousands of data points every second, yet operators often struggle to access and leverage this flood of information. GEMS Pulse solves this by transforming complex and largely inaccessible battery…
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Wärtsilä completes first-of-its-kind integrated explosion control system tests
Technology group Wärtsilä has successfully completed large-scale testing of its proprietary Active Ignition Mitigation System (AIMS). AIMS is engineered to mitigate potential flammable gas build-up during an abnormal thermal scenario within battery energy storage systems (BESS). With this milestone, Wärtsilä becomes one of the first BESS integrators to demonstrate the effectiveness of an integrated explosion…
