Finland distributed energy storage service center

What is Elisa's distributed energy storage solution?

Elisa to accelerate Distributed Energy Storage solution – Europe’s largest distributed virtual power plant in the making in Finland. If you'd like to hear more about Elisa's Distributed Energy Storage solution, leave your contact details here and someone from the team will be in touch shortly.

Why is distributed energy storage important?

“It is critical for society that we have an energy supply that is affordable, secure and sustainable, and the potential for distributed energy storage of telecom networks to contribute to this is huge,” said Jukka-Pekka Salmenkaita, Vice President of AI and Special Projects at Elisa.

What is a Fingrid AFRR (automatic frequency restoration reserve)?

As a result, in the summer, Elisa received the technical pre-qualification acceptance from Fingrid (Finland’s TSO) for its Distributed Energy Storage solution to provide balancing services in a specific balancing market, the “automatic frequency restoration reserve”, or ‘aFRR’.

What percentage of Finland's Electricity is generated by wind turbines?

In 2022, 14.1% of Finland’s electricity was generated by wind turbines with a collective capacity of almost 5.7 GW² (+76%). That capacity is expected to increase to almost 9 GW by 2025.