X 3,500 KVA DIESEL GENSETS FOR A NEW DATA CENTRE IN CHINA

AUSONIA S.r.l. has provided the equipment and systems integration for seven 1750 KW diesel-fuelled rotary UPS into a complete 12,25 MW backup power solution with output@11,5kV for the petrolchemical facility based in Malaysia.

Uninterruptible power supplies, with battery backup, provide a few seconds to a few minutes, or up to a couple of hours, of backup power to immediately replace power from the mains in case of failure.

Diesel rotary uninterruptible power supply devices (DRUPS) like these combine the functionality of a battery and a diesel generator forlong term uninterrupted power without a transfer. A DRUPS can have enough fuel to power the load for days or even weeks in the event of failure of the mains electricity supply.

Established in 1932, Ausonia is a key genset manufacturing company based in Italy. With a standard range of tried-and-tested gensets up to 3300 kVA, Ausonia designs and manufactures electric and thermal integrated energy generating systems for highly critical sectors such as Telecommunications, Utilities, Military & Defense, Transport,Healthcare and key Infrastructures.

Covering an area of 32.000 sqm, the Ausonia factory is equipped with the latest technology of automated machines for cutting, bending, welding and painting.

In a major genset sale delivered this month, 32 MTU 20V4000 units were supplied and installed at a new Huawei Gui’an data centre in China.

Huawei Cloud has deployed five data centres in China. Among them, two major Huawei Cloud facilities are situated in Gui’an and Ulannqab.

Three-core centres are already established in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao regions of China.

The Gui’an data centre has been planned in order to develop Huawei’s largest data centre with a 1-million servers capacity.

This site is a key bearing node for Huawei Cloud services including Huawei Cloud, Huawei Process IT, Consumer Cloud, and other activities.

The first phase of Huawei Cloud has been established in response to the national “East Number and West Count” project.

The new centre has three types of layouts – cold, warm, and hot, reports the company.

WITH COAL ADDED, INDONESIA’S ENERGY MIX REACHES 64% IN 2022-3

The share of coal in Indonesia’s energy mix increased to 64% from 61% in 2022-3, meeting the electricity needed, following a 6.6% year-on-year rise in electricity demand, reports the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Around 13GW of coal-fired plant projects have been in the pipeline from 2021 to 2023. However, the Just Energy Transition Partnership is expected to speed up the phase-out of coal-fired output in the mid to long term. ‘There is a freeze of the current planned pipeline of coal-fired plants’, comments the report.

“Other targets in this framework to accelerate the decarbonisation of the power sector include achieving peak power sector emissions by 2030 of no more than 290 (metric tonnes of carbon dioxide), and reaching a share of 34% of renewables in the generation mix by 2030,” explains a spoikesman for the IEA.

Around 20% of the country’s energy mix is composed of renewables led by hydropower, geothermal and biofuels, whilst gas-fired output made up 15%.

In November 2022, Indonesia, the Asian Development Bank and a private power firm said publicly teaming up to refinance and prematurely retire a coal-fired power plant, the first such project under a groundbreaking carbon emissions reduction programme. The 660-megawatt Cirebon 1 power plant in West Java is currently being refinanced in a US$250 million to US$300 million deal.