Could South Africa be an important energy storage market in the making?
A change in president could signal a new era for energy storage in South Africa. New leader Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to restart a previously... Read More
How Can Energy Storage Systems Reduce Investment Expenditure for TSOs/DSOs?
Our demand for energy continues to grow – and while generation has kept up with demand, infrastructure improvements have lagged behind. Bringing grid infrastructure to... Read More
Hybrid energy storage: Are combined solutions gaining ground?
Combining component parts into hybrid systems to reap the benefits has always been an attractive prospect. In the past years, successful projects have come online... Read More
What lessons can be learnt from the UK’s latest Capacity Auction?
This month’s UK capacity market auction left a bitter taste in the mouths of optimistic developers, with final prices low enough to discourage new developments... Read More
What technologies are being explored to cut costs for bulk energy storage?
Making energy storage cheaper is a key goal of a horde of companies. But how are they looking to store energy at much larger –... Read More
South Australian Virtual Power Plant could be 30% cheaper than grid power, says report
Tesla and the South Australian government announced in early February that they were planning the largest “virtual power plant” (VPP) in the world. The VPP... Read More
Energy storage systems for C&I: Quantifying the market potential
C&I: A growing energy storage market In 2017, only 4.3% of battery storage deployment could be classified as for commercial and industrial (C&I) use. Nevertheless,... Read More
Could post-disaster battery demand increase impact utilities?
Thousands of Floridians sheltered in 115 schools powered by solar-plus-storage in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, able to charge their mobile phones to call their... Read More
Approval given for huge 100 MW/380 MWh battery storage facility at Victoria, Australia solar project
Total Eren, the partnership between Total, one of the world’s fossil fuel majors and renewable energy company EREN RE, has stated that it’s recently announced... Read More
French utility RTE’s RINGO (“virtual power line”) will come online in 2020
The “virtual power line” designed by French utility RTE will come into service in 2020, for a test period of three years upon which an... Read More