Skeleton Technologies provided supercapacitors for the energy storage system integrated into the Kurkiaska hydropower plant in Finland, facilitating a seamless 2 MW ramp-up. This empowers the plant to participate in Frequency Containment Reserves including the Fast Frequency Reserve. Kemijoki Oy expects that this would safeguard its machinery against the wear and tear that constant grid fluctuations would otherwise induce and is now starting the evaluation period.
