Something interesting to watch

Petition: Include Solar PV and battery storage in the Greener Homes Grant petition.parliament.uk/petitions/3337…

When faced with hundreds or thousands of sites, how can developers identify the most attractive sites to develop #energystorage projects? See how #IHSMarkit can give you the most accurate forecasts early in the valuation process: ow.ly/Tq6550BUp4c

5. Solar is now the cheapest source of bulk electricity in most sunny countries. We don’t need a technology breakthrough, or subsidies, in solar to achieve massive adoption. Mostly, solar developers just need a grid connection and/or permission to sell electricity.

6. Solar’s cheap but it still costs money. Auction bids below $25/MWh do not reflect the full cost of generation, eg Portugal’s 11 euro/MWh 2020 auction price is a flutter on the long term value of the grid connection. Middle East headlines are opaque internal transfer prices.

7. Grid connections are now the gold dust for the solar (and wind) project development business. To optimize use, we’ll see solar & wind farms with capacity much larger than the grid connection, some with batteries.

15. Many current household PV systems are designed suboptimally and may not make economic sense or even perform well. Also, most countries will move to paying a pittance for solar exports, so self-consumption rate is becoming the most important financial parameter for rooftop PV.

21. Utility-scale batteries are going to be a massive thing everywhere, both co-located with solar and wind to use a grid connection, and just embedded in the grid. However they’re not going to solve seasonal demand-supply mismatches as the utilization would be too low.

Perfect opportunity for flow batteries to participate and claw back some market share in a world dominated by li-ion greentechmedia.com/articles/read/…

Nice to see another flow battery project appear. This does really highlight the scale factor though. Tiny flow battery in comparison to some monster li-ion projects installed recently.

...and it is technology advancements like this that the #VRFBs lose one of the valuable ✅ (safety)

IHS Markit has begun the residential #energystorage shipment data collection for the first quarter 2021. I would like to invite residential system suppliers to submit data. Please checkout this article I wrote for PV magazine on the energy storage market: lnkd.in/eCQpbaj

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Oh no... oh no Vox... oh no, why are you doing this?? This is the kind of click-bait YouTube title you'd expect from "10 tips on cleaning your cast iron skillet" not an issue as rife with dis- and mis-information as climate change...