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By:
Andy Colthorpe
People that are sceptical of the ability to decarbonise the energy system are often simply not aware of the solutions that already exist. One major example of this is how the renewable energy and energy storage industries are rapidly adding digital capabilities to control how their resources interact with energy markets.
Smart software and artificial intelligence (AI) can forecast everything from how much electricity will be generated and when it will be generated, to the right strategies for putting that electricity into different market opportunities.
When Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS), one of the pioneers of adding digital capabilities to batteries, was acquired by energy storage technology provider and system integrator Fluence in October last year, it cemented a relationship between the two companies going back to 2019.
14 May 2021
Frustration is mounting at the high degree of difficulty of connecting big batteries to Australia’s grid, with one renewables developer reportedly lamenting that the only tougher market for large-scale energy storage might be the Moon.
That comment, which came from an unnamed source, was related to RenewEconomy this week by Matt Penfold, an Australian who currently works from the US as vice president of commercial on the digital team at energy storage technology and bidding software leader Fluence.
The sentiment mirrors the exasperation expressed, also this week, by the head of one of Australia’s leading renewable energy developers, Tilt Renewables, at his company’s inability to obtain approval to add a big battery to one of its operating wind farms in South Australia. See: “I don’t get it: Why an old wind farm is unable to add a new big battery