{"id":1456,"date":"2024-05-16T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2024-05-15T17:53:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T08:53:26","slug":"canadian-solar-secures-193-mw-of-bess-projects-in-japans-inaugural-long-term-decarbonization-power-source-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/2024\/1456.html","title":{"rendered":"CANADIAN SOLAR SECURES 193 MW OF BESS PROJECTS IN JAPAN&#8217;S INAUGURAL LONG-TERM DECARBONIZATION POWER SOURCE AUCTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GUELPH, ON,&nbsp;May 8, 2024&nbsp;\/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadiansolar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canadian Solar Inc.<\/a>&nbsp;(the &#8220;Company&#8221;, or &#8220;Canadian Solar&#8221;) (NASDAQ: CSIQ) announced today that it has won three battery energy storage system (&#8220;BESS&#8221;) projects, totaling 193 MW, in&nbsp;Japan&#8217;s&nbsp;first Long-Term Decarbonization Power Source Auction (&#8220;LTDA&#8221;). The winners of this auction were announced on&nbsp;April 26, 2024, with the Company securing a 13.3% of the total awarded&nbsp;energy storage&nbsp;projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Canadian Solar\u00a0will enter into Capacity Reserve Agreements (&#8220;CRA&#8221;) with the\u00a0Organization for Cross-regional Coordination of Transmission Operators\u00a0(&#8220;OCCTO&#8221;). These energy storage projects will provide capacity over a 20-year period, in return for Capacity Reserve Payments to offset fixed storage system costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Located in Aomori, Fukushima, and Yamaguchi prefectures respectively, the three projects are expected to commence commercial operations between 2027 to 2028 and will feature the recently launched SolBank 3.0 system from e-STORAGE, a subsidiary\u00a0CSI Solar Co., Ltd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr.&nbsp;Shawn Qu, Chairman and CEO of&nbsp;Canadian Solar,<\/strong>&nbsp;commented, &#8220;Our remarkable achievement in&nbsp;Japan&#8217;s&nbsp;inaugural LTDA underscores our strong position in energy storage market in&nbsp;Japan. Since launching our PV operations in 2009, we have been at the forefront of the industry. Now, we have also established ourselves in the energy storage market. The introduction of our SolBank 3.0 system has been pivotal, providing us with an edge in competitive market. As of&nbsp;January 31, 2024, our project development pipeline in&nbsp;Japan&nbsp;totaled 1.376 GWh and 213 MWp for energy storage and solar respectively. With the LTDA&#8217;s support and increasing demand from corporate buyers, we anticipate continued growth in&nbsp;Japan. We remain committed to advancing both BESS and PV projects, supporting&nbsp;Japan&#8217;s&nbsp;goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUELPH, ON,&nbsp;May 8, 2024&nbsp;\/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;&nbsp;Canadian Solar Inc.&nbsp;(the &#8220;Company&#038;#8221 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}