Microgrids – the key to energy storage sales?

Without microgrids, battery-backed energy storage may have limited prospects; but with them electrical distribution could achieve much higher efficiency, as some far-sighted utilities are demonstrating. Melanie Chamberland – a project manager at the CANMET Energy Technology Centre in Ottawa, which is responsible for Vanadium Redox technology – reports from this year's Microgrid Symposium, held in Nagoya, Japan.

The Microgrid Symposium is an annual international conference that provides experts in microgrid research with an opportunity to learn about current activities and progress being made in countries throughout the world. This year's one-day meeting comprised four . . .