Speeding up interconnection processes is needed to enable the adoption of more renewable energy. Image: Fluence.
Getting grid interconnection rights for energy storage in the US is difficult largely because procedures in place were not designed with energy storage in mind.
A consortium headed up by the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) and supported by the US Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office seeks to solve that situation, citing that barriers to interconnection are unnecessary, but solvable.
Energy-Storage.news has heard from various sources that it can be a long and difficult process, not helped by COVID-19 related delays over the past two years. The US’ regional transmission and distribution providers have long queues of solar-plus-storage and standalone battery storage projects from developers waiting their turn.
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