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Projects: The grid of the future

Major obstacles to further solar deployment are tackled by this year’s winner, an energy storage project that provides the kind of grid-shoring support that will be vital in global markets before long. From synthetic inertia to software-informed module cleaning, the pv magazine Awards Projects jury has rewarded those that have used technological innovation to achieve world firsts and significant cost savings.

Winner Wärtsilä Energy Storage, Blackhillock BESS In a year in which grid stability, flexibility and storage have come into the spotlight, the 2025 Projects award goes to a battery energy storage system (BESS) that delivers world firsts that are sure to be emulated elsewhere. The Blackhillock energy storage facility is a 200 MW/400 MWh system …

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