Featured in The fires feeding mono's rise – 11-2018

Cutting down on copper

Controllable, distributed battery storage systems can help avoid bottlenecks in power distribution networks. That reduces the cost of grid expansion, but to turn this use of storage systems into a business model, a number of conditions still have to be met.

By

pv magazine

02 Nov 2018

Image: The Mobility House

A garage-sized concrete box, located to the west of Kempten in Southern Germany looks like an ordinary local grid transformer station. Behind the metal door, however, there is neither a transformer nor switchgear, but rather 30 lithium-ion battery packs stacked on a black wall. It is one of five battery storage systems currently installed in …

Subscribe to get access to this content

Purchase a digital or print subscription to read this article in full. Choose the best subscription for you.