Will batteries do for wind what they’re doing for solar?

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These days central focus of the power sector is energy storage solutions. Finding the most economic battery storage system becomes essential question. “But battery storage is — in certain places and applications — on its way to cost-competitiveness.”

Energy storage is storming the U.S. power industry, driving changes from the bulk system level to the customer level. At the system level, February’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Order 841 required bulk system operators to design new rules to integrate storage. April’s Order 845 rewrote the rules on interconnection, opening new opportunities for storage. At the customer level, state lawmakers and regulators in 32 states considered 57 policy actions on deployment, targets, studies and rebates for energy storage in Q1 of this year. Until about 2015, utility executives and renewable energy skeptics regarded cost-competitive battery energy storage as […]

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