Featured in The Land of the Rising Sun – 02-2014

Offloading the grid

Battery storage: 2013 saw the emergence of a number of battery storage solutions on to the PV market. Inverters are also being produced that are battery ready. These battery systems can offer households the opportunity to utilize more of the PV electricity produced on their roof. And new research is showing how batteries can also support electricity grids at the same time.

By

Jonathan Gifford

11 Feb 2014

It is well known that one of the competitive advantages of solar PV is its ability to be installed close to consumption – the principle behind distributed generation. But that also means that large amounts of PV capacity are being installed on low or medium voltage grids.These grids were not designed to cope with large …

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