Optimising co-located BESS is “much more complicated” than standalone and few companies can do it well, panellists on Day 2 of Solar Finance & Investment Europe (SFIE) said.
More news in brief from around the world in energy storage, featuring vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs), bankruptcy for a thermal storage startup and a new integrated lithium tech.
Solar and energy storage were described by Elon Musk as going together “like peanut butter and jelly”. Andy Colthorpe meets some of the players creating this winning combination in the US.
Industry-watchers will closely follow how the recently completed acquisition of energy storage system integrator NEC ES by LG Energy Solution pans out.
Ingeteam has announced that it was supplier of the full battery energy storage system (BESS) solution to Spain’s first-ever solar PV plant equipped with energy storage from commissioning.