energy storage system

Renewable energy firms Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) and Harmony Energy have commissioned a 15MWh lithium-ion energy storage system using six Tesla Megapack batteries.

The project in Dorset, UK, will store energy from renewable sources and deliver peak-load shifting to the UK National Grid via distribution network operator Scottish and Southern Electric Power.  

Lithium-ion energy storage system firm Fluence, a joint venture of Siemens and AES, has chosen Manuel Perez Dubuc to be the company’s new chief executive officer.

Dubuc will succeed Stephen Coughlin on 1 May in a change the company said was a “strategic move intended to further accelerate energy storage adoption around the world”. 

Despite deploying 1GWh of energy storage system last year the European market showed a marked slow down compared to 2018.

The European market fell by around 470MWh year-on-year according to the fourth edition of the European Market Monitor on Energy Storage (EMMES) published by the European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) and new energy consulting company Delta-EE.

Energy storage system developer Alfen has been selected by Swedish power company Vattenfall to deploy a 5MW/20MWh system in its home country.

The system in Uppsala will be the third large-scale energy storage system that the Netherland’s-based developer has delivered to the government-owned multinational. 

Lithium-ion is set to account for 85% of future energy storage system projects as developers take advantage of regulatory policy, deployment mandates and falling technology costs.

The findings were reported by industry analysts Navigant Research based on its a database of global energy storage projects that incorporated regional analysis of technology choice, capacity, and market share for deployed projects and projects in the pipeline.