Rooftop solar could potentially be the catalyst for a new surge in energy storage installations. Ten years ago, solar was dominated by rooftop installations. Then developers and utilities hit on the idea of building utility-scale projects, and kickstarted the booming market we see today.
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NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has become one of the latest players to make a bold move into the UK energy storage market. Last week it was revealed that NESF has entered into a £100m joint venture partnership (JVP) with battery storage specialist Eelpower.
With $12bn of assets and a 4.5GW portfolio of solar and battery projects, Arevon Energy is well-placed to make a major impact in energy storage.
BY PRISCILLA OBILANA: Chile briefly led the world in batteries in 2009. That’s when the world’s first commercial grid-scale battery storage system was turned on in the Atacama Desert, in the north of the South…
BY RICHARD HEAP: This week, BayWa and Suntrace fired up a 30MW solar plant with a 15.4MWh battery storage system at the Fekola gold mine in Mali in west Africa. The project is set to…
Scatec’s 53MW Los Prados solar project in Honduras (Pic source: Scatec Solar) BY RICHARD HEAP: Norwegian operator Scatec Solar wants to leapfrog its European rivals by expanding in hydro, storage and wind. Soon it…
By Mike Stone A recently-completed solar-plus-storage microgrid has contributed to “eyebrow raising” savings for a medical manufacturing facility in Costa Rica.
By Jason Deign A solar-plus-battery project in Hawaii is showing how energy storage can help take the stress off the grid while delivering benefits to utility customers.