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Storing up the future

The global installation of photovoltaics is expected to reach the terawatt level within just five years, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. And with more than 99.1 GW of grid-connected solar installed in 2017, switching on to the importance of storage is key.

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pv magazine

09 Oct 2018

Massimo Migliorini is Global Business Development Manager at ABB’s Business Unite Solar. | Image: Massimo Miliorini

Recent years have seen a major shift towards self-consumption in the residential market. This has stemmed from the decrease of feed-in tariffs, technological advancements in smart buildings fuelling higher self-consumption rates, and grid feed-in to improve the new prosumer model.Storage technology will be the game changer for energy systems of the future, drastically reshaping the …

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