grid integration

Ghana has recently added to its solar plant portfolio with a new 20MW plant developed by Chinese technology firm Beijing Xiaocheng Company (BXC).

The output of a 16MW solar farm in Puerto Rico will be tied to an Aquion ‘saltwater’ battery, in one of the few current trials of moving solar power produced in the daytime to be used at night.

A key theme of the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue conference last week was how Germany’s Energiewende (‘energy transition’) has not only proven how to foster an explosion of renewable generation capacity through support schemes, but also how to integrate those renewables. Grid operators from Germany and Denmark discussed questions of feasibility, past, present and future.

The US Department of Energy is to fund six projects trialling the combination of solar and energy storage.