Upcoming Events:

Masterclass (Training)

22 & 23 August 2023, Johannesburg(On-Site)

JIN Chi

Electrical Engineer and Energy Storage Specialist
MOTT MACDONALD (SINGAPORE)

Peng Xiaoyang

R&D Programme Manager
ENGIE LAB (SINGAPORE)

Lorenzo Mancini

Regional Sales Director
TotalEnergies Renewables Distributed Generation Asia (SINGAPORE)

Joo Duk Vancoppenolle

Senior Project and Business Development Director
ELIA GRID INTERNATIONAL (SINGAPORE)

Matthieu Le Gall

Business Developer Southeast Asia
AKUO ENERGY (SINGAPORE)

Sunil Gupta

Regional Head
VENA ENERGY (SINGAPORE)

Edward Lynch-Bell

Product Development
EVIE NETWORKS (AUSTRALIA)

Master Leader: Robert de Groot

Energy Storage Specialist
MOTT MACDONALD (Singapore)

6th Residential Energy Storage Forum Speakers - Munich

Tudor Constantinescu

Principal Advisor To The Director General For Energy
European Commission (Belgium)

Monica Löf

R&D Programme Manager for Smart Energy Solutions
Vattenfall (Sweden)

Maria Brucoli

Smart Energy Systems Manager
EDF (UK)

Jost Broichmann

Project Manager Distributed Storage/Virtual Plants
Wemag (Germany)

PAST KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Sir David King

Climate Change Envoy
UK GOVERNMENT

Anna Carolina Tortora

Head of Innovation Strategy
NATIONAL GRID (UK)

Basil Scarsella

CEO
UK POWER NETWORKS

WHAT’S DIFFERENT?

TESTIMONIALS

High scientific content, well targeted, perfect organization.

C.B, Expert Technical & Governance, Elia, Energy Storage World Forum Berlin

Probably the most interactive and well organized storage event on the calendar.

S.J, Sales Director, S&C, Energy Storage World Forum Berlin

Well-designed, organized, friendly staff– and various international contacts we hope to do business with soon.

V.G, Marketing Manager, Gildemeister, Energy Storage World Forum Berlin

Very informative with good networking & knowledge sharing session.

S.T, Senior Director, Energy Market Authority, Energy Storage World Forum London

Excellent networking event. The sponsorship was well worth it.

C.G, Manager, ATL, Energy Storage World Forum Sydney

Great topics, competent speakers, good networking: keep it like that.

P.R, TLC & SCADA Manager, FRI-EL, Energy Storage World Forum Berlin

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Silver Sponsor

Associate

Residential Energy Storage Forum Sponsor

Community Partners

PAST ATTENDEES INCLUDE

energy Storage Articles

ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES

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Introduction to Solar energy

While exporting electricity to the grid is no longer such a lucrative prospect, using solar power to reduce one’s own energy consumption still brings price savings. When power is drawn from the electrical grid at a flat rate, there is no need to store that solar power.
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Thermal Energy

Storing excessive thermal energy to be used in colder times is one of the oldest forms of energy storage known to us. Recent research and development have made it possible to use this energy for grid applications. Learn more about the different types of thermal energy storage here.
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History of Grid-Scale

Since the electrical grid has existed, so has the need for stored forms of energy that can be drawn on to meet times of peak demand and regulate frequency. In the past, the bulk of this extra energy came from fossil fuel plants that were fired up and down with demand.
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Economics of Energy Storage

Are energy storage systems profitable? How does their value relate to their costs? How will this change in the near and long-term future? Learn more about the economics of energy storage and the business case for these solutions.

THE LAST WORD ABOUT ENERGY STORAGE

Exploring new and innovative regulatory frameworks have long been a topic of discussion in the energy storage world – it’s a programme topic in this year’s Energy Storage World Forum. But while regulations fail to keep pace with new advances in the sector, how much is this holding back the adoption of energy storage technologies?

Lack of certainty holds back long term planning

Energy storage suffers from lack of regulatory certainty within the EU. While a number of member states – Germany and the UK especially – have made great strides in adoption levels, lack of consistency is a looming issue.

A key problem is that much regulation does not know where energy storage systems should be classed – when treated as a generation asset, this prohibits DNOs from owning or operating them. It also opens storage operators to being charged twice, for both charging and discharging.

The lack of clear regulatory frameworks makes long-term revenue forecasting a difficult affair for developers and keeps investors and financiers cautious.

The momentum of the energy storage market

While these regulatory conditions are not ideal for energy storage developers, the sector continues to grow as the technology matures and financing becomes easier to procure. Capital expenditure costs are falling and new avenues to market are opening, with grid ancillary services being the primary target for new developers. The UK’s National Grid have signalled that large changes to the grid-balancing services market are to come, further expanding energy storage opportunities.

Meeting the needs of end users and grid operators has seen large amounts of storage capacity installed both for grid-scale applications and behind-the-meter. As the benefits of resilience and flexibility become more apparent to potential investors and the business case for storage applications becomes more robust, demand and deployments will keep increasing. Dominique Jamme, Special Adviser to the President of the French Commission de Régulation de l’Énergie (CRE), opined that regulatory barriers are secondary to market barriers in much of Europe in ESWFs February Webinar.

Potential regulatory disparity

Falling costs and deployment benefits may have given energy storage an unstoppable momentum, but that does not mean that current regulatory frameworks are not hampering growth. Even now, growth is concentrated in a small number of countries – those where policy and regulations favour storage adoptions and recognise (or begin to recognise) it’s value. This effect is particularly noticeable in the United States, where regulatory differences between states have a clear effect on the amount of planned energy storage deployment.

Regulatory barriers are also identified as a hindrance to further energy storage projects by many in the field. In the UK, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Energy Storage claim that current government policy will reduce the storage capacity deployed by 2021 from a potential 12 GW to 8 GW. The European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) have also stated that regulations must keep up with advances for the technology to flourish.

The benefits of energy storage for both end users and the grid have already reached a tipping point where costs are justified for many business cases – this trend shows no sign of stopping. Regulatory frameworks that recognise the value of the technology, coordinate advances throughout the European member states and give developers a consistent structure for long-term forecast are still necessary for optimum growth.

★REVIEWS

“Probably the most interactive and well organized storage event on the calendar.”

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Sales Director, S&C

“Great topics, competent speakers, good networking: keep it like that.”

★★★★★

TLC & SCADA Manager, FRI-EL

“High scientific content, well targeted, perfect organization.”

★★★★★

Expert Technical & Governance, Elia

Excellent networking event. The sponsorship was well worth it.”

★★★★★

Manager, ATL

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