In order to provide power reserves, with Decree No. 674 of 24 September 2024, the Republic of Latvia's Cabinet of Ministers gave permission for AST to acquire, install and operate battery energy storage systems for the maintenance and activation of electricity reserves. . An energy storage battery is equipment comprised of several energy storage batteries are intend for discharging and charging electricity within the grid, in order to ensure the required regulation of reserves upwards or downwards as needs be. Meanwhile, Estonia is advancing two major BESS projects, backed with. . Latvia's transmission system operator AS "Augstsprieguma tīkls" (AST) has received a critical shipment from Italy, delivered by Rolls-Royce Solutions GmbH. Rolls-Royce Solutions GmbH has delivered inverters and battery control equipment for the Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). This system, among the most powerful of its kind in the. .
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