Published: 9 Jun 2021, 09:56
By:
Andy Colthorpe
AES Alamitos 100MW / 400MWh battery project in California officially went online on the first day of 2021. Image: AES Corporation.
Nearly 12,000MWh of energy storage could be installed in the US during 2021 and the market will continue growing significantly over the next few years, according to research and analysis group Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables.
The forecast has been provided in Wood Mackenzie’s latest quarterly ‘US energy storage monitor’ report, which is published in partnership with the industry’s national Energy Storage Association (ESA). Along with that massive figure for this year Wood Mackenzie in March said that 2020 deployments were about 1,500MW / 3,500MWh the group is predicting that by 2026 the US will be a 33GWh annual market, worth around US$8.5 billion.
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Irish engineering consultancy GDG has secured an International Energy Agency (IEA) task aimed at advancing floating offshore wind.
The four-year programme is named “Integrated DEsign of floating wind Arrays” (Idea), with GDG one of three operating agents together with the US National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and IFP Energies Nouvelles to deliver the project.
The aim is to accelerate the sustainable commercialisation of floating wind arrays through a multidisciplinary approach seeking to maximise the technical, social, economic and environmental benefit of large-scale deployments.
It covers four research areas.
Curating a set of site conditions representative of the global floating wind deployment pipeline.