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Published: 3 Mar 2021, 14:04 By: Reporter, Solar Media The merits of co-located battery storage sites - such as this solar-plus-storage site originally developed by Anesco and now owned by GRIDSERVE - were debated during this year's Energy Storage Summit. Image: Anesco Co-located battery storage’s ability to help mitigate risk and counter renewable yield compression has been hailed as a “fantastic opportunity” by renewables investor Bluefield Partners’ investment director Jan Libicek. Speaking on a panel at this week’s Energy Storage Summit 2021, Libicek said that when...

Published: 3 Mar 2021, 12:51 By: Edith Hancock Charlie Pugsey, deputy commissioner for the London Fire Brigade, believes better monitoring of "forseeable events" could be vital in improving safety in the energy storage industry. Image: ESRG Re-examining and retrofitting older, potentially hazardous battery storage systems should be an “essential” part of preventing harm, according to a panel of industry leaders. Speaking at the Energy Storage Summit 2021, hosted by our publisher Solar Media yesterday (2 March) Charlie Pugsley, the deputy fire safety commissioner of the London...

Published: 3 Mar 2021, 16:03 By: Andy Colthorpe Session moderator Carina Radford's law firm White & Case advised on the Neoen-Tesla Hornsdale Power Reserve project in South Australia. Image: Neoen-Tesla. The battery storage market in the UK has become a viable investment opportunity in just the past few months, even without the backing of long-term contracts for grid services, according to an investment manager in the renewable energy sector. Jonty Lovell, investment manager at Foresight Group, said that the falling cost of energy storage and the evolution of an industry capabl...

By: Andy Colthorpe Texas’ grid and the idiosyncrasies of its electricity planning system regime made global headlines in February following a harsh winter storm and subsequent blackouts that affected millions of people and businesses for almost an entire week. The tragic events, which left an estimated 30 people dead, were followed quickly by initial, predictable, depressing knee-jerk reactionary blaming of renewable energy by politicians and media outlets alike. In reality wind and solar both performed above grid planners' expectations in the state while thermal generation sources not onl...

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