Featured in Bending your ear – 08-2015

“Intermittency won’t be an issue in the future”

Interview: ABB’s MD of power conversion Otto Preiss has seen the growing importance of storage technologies, and believes the company is set to play a powerful role in the storage space.

What do you make of the battery storage market at present? Otto Preiss: On the PV side, we see residential storage quickly evolving. Looking at Germany and Italy, there is a need today of around 20,000 to 30,000 units [per annum], ranging from 2 kWh to 6 kWh. We believe that by 2018 10% of …

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