Telecoms specialist Elisa is deploying battery and PV systems at base towers in Finland, which will “implement virtual power plant (VPP) optimisation of locally produced solar energy. ”Finland telecommunications firm Elisa has received €3. 17 million) from the government to form a VPP using batteries which could be the largest of its kind in Europe. The company will put the funding towards a rollout of its Distributed Energy Storage (DES) solution across its. Elisa, a leading Finnish telecom operator, partnered with Gridle to transform the batteries in the mobile base stations into a Virtual Power Plant (VPP). This innovative initiative leverages AI to generate optimize when to charge and discharge the base station batteries. ” Solar PV arrays of around 5kW generation capacity will be typically paired with 400Ah battery storage systems at. DNA Tower Finland, a Telenor Towers company, has effectively used Elisa Industriq's AI-based Distributed Energy Storage (DES) technology to link base station batteries to the Finnish power reserve market. DNA Tower Finland is the first tower firm in the world whose base station batteries work with. Using the Radio Access Network (RAN) to run a Virtual Power Plant could save telecoms operators around 50% of their current electricity costs by optimising their energy purchases as well balancing the grid with renewable energy at times of need says Elisa.
