Growing deployments present unique challenges Some 4,150MW of utility-scale energy storage was added to electricity grids in California, Texas, the UK and Australia last year.Other US states and countries in Europe, like Italy and Germany, are slowly but surely catching up. Haresh Kamath, director of distributed energy resources and energy storage at Electric Power Research […]
Large-scale battery prevents Dutch wind farm’s power from being wasted
A 10MW battery energy storage system (BESS), which will allow a 24MW wind farm to keep generating energy even in times of oversupply, officially went into service today near Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The old stereotype of Holland as a country of windmills holds particularly true in this northerly region, where the old kind of windmills have been […]