{"id":12341,"date":"2025-05-29T08:35:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T05:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartecon.com\/?p=12341"},"modified":"2025-05-30T07:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T04:55:20","slug":"ardors-hybrid-battery-and-solar-plant-clears-more-than-e60-000-within-weeks-of-going-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartecon.com\/en\/ardors-hybrid-battery-and-solar-plant-clears-more-than-e60-000-within-weeks-of-going-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Ardor\u2019s hybrid battery-and-solar plant clears more than 80 000 \u20ac within weeks of going live"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"12341\" class=\"elementor elementor-12341\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-67662953 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"67662953\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-284969db\" data-id=\"284969db\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1edbc70b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1edbc70b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u201cConstruction hit every milestone; the only piece that took a little longer was setting up the energy management and metering system,\u201d says CEO <strong>Kuido Kuntro<\/strong>.<\/p><p>\u201cToday, the market is facing a significant shortage of flexible assets. It\u2019s important to get started quickly. The battery operation strategy evolves over time and can be fine-tuned in the coming months,\u201d noted Magno Kure, co-founder and CEO of Smartecon.<\/p><p><strong>What Ardor has learned so far<\/strong><\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Set aside extra time for grid-connection and compliance tests \u2013 they often run longer than planned as BESS and PV hybrid is new topic for TSO\/DSO.<\/li><li>Invest in SCADA monitoring tools and support \u2013 better operational visibility turns data into higher profits and asset availability.<\/li><\/ul><p>Almost half of the project\u2019s capital cost was covered by Estonian Business and Innovation Agency Energy Security grant programme. Encouraged by the initial results, Ardor is already looking at a second storage container and more solar panels to boost both self-consumption and market revenue.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When pellet producer Ardor switched on its new one-container battery in early February, just days after Estonia left the IPS\/UPS grid, the first aim was simply to keep factory operations stable through a turbulent period for the Baltic power system. Since then, the company\u2019s on-site solar park and storage unit have already earned well over 80 000 \u20ac in market revenue by combining frequency-restoration services for Elering with carefully timed charge\u2013discharge cycles on Nord Pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":12350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartecon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartecon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartecon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartecon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartecon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12341"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/smartecon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12409,"href":"https:\/\/smartecon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12341\/revisions\/12409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartecon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartecon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartecon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartecon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}