Featured in The great integrator – 08-2022

Dawn of virtual transmission

Quick and versatile, batteries are providing a growing number of services to homes, businesses, and on the grid. Electricity network operators are beginning to adopt grid-scale batteries, with the initial applications potentially opening the way for renewable energy to flow more freely and across larger distances than ever before.

By

Jonathan Gifford

09 Aug 2022

Image: Fluence

It’s the little battery that could. In Vilnius, the capital city of the Baltic state of Lithuania, a 1 MW/1 MWh lithium-ion battery has been changing perceptions of the role of battery energy storage systems on electricity networks. And with solar and wind penetration growing fast in many parts of the world, grid-scale batteries can …

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