Featured in Material change – 03-2024

Hybrid projects are driving grid-scale solar

With the worsening climate crisis, it’s easy to lose sight of the progress made over the past decade. Solar growth is eye-watering. Even in Northern Europe, peak solar generation turns early afternoon prices negative with increasing regularity as solar generation exceeds demand. On distribution grids, PV installations are causing congestion on networks designed to meet peak demand. Jon Ferris, from European energy transition practice LCP Delta, examines the co-location of storage as a strategy to keep solar installations growing.

The growth of grid scale energy storage has been rapid. Where, just a few years ago, 6 MW was a big battery, planned installations are now 10 or even 100 times bigger. Most of the operational sites are standalone projects, however, confounding the logic of co-locating batteries with renewable energy. This approach is about to …

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