Featured in A Teutonic shift – 02-2018

Driving long-term growth

IHS Markit Senior Market Analyst, Solar & Energy Storage, Julian Jansen notes that 40% of the total energy storage pipeline aims at solar plus storage projects. He explains how this combination is developing into a surprisingly good working business model for storage. It can radically change the energy supply landscape for good.
he 10 MW Clayhill solar farm in the U.K. features a co-located 6 MW storage facility. The U.K. plans to provide further guidance on the FIT and Renewable Obligation (RO) schemes for co-located sites.

With almost 200 GW of utility-scale solar PV deployed since 2010, representing around 50% of total solar installations in that time, its importance as one of the pivotal generation technologies of the future can no longer be contested. Based on this impressive growth, the biggest barrier to achieving a fully renewable energy system remains the inherent …

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