6.5-7GW of BESS has been deployed in California, Texas, the UK and Australia at the time of writing. Image: Chris Hunkeler / Flickr.
Alongside its many benefits, growing deployments of energy storage will pose complex challenges around availability of data and resource planning for grid and distribution network operators.
This is an extract of an article which appeared in Vol.31 of PV Tech Power, Solar Media’s quarterly technical journal for the downstream solar industry. Every edition includes ‘Storage & Smart Power,’ a dedicated section contributed by the team at Energy-Storage.news.
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 as Energy-Storage.news wrote recently. Other US states and countries in Europe, like Italy and