Keynote Panel: The Urgency of Implementing Storage to Support Renewables Expansion

Synopsis

It is key to understand how energy storage can provide balancing services, as well as ensuring system safety, stability and security for countries across the region.

• The relationship between renewables, storage capacity and energy prices in day ahead and intraday markets
• The benefits of utilising energy storage at transmission and distribution level, and how it can balance the grid
• How energy storage will provide crucial flexibility benefits to electricity systems and free up capacity
• Highlighting how current processes to obtain grid connections can be re-developed in order to create a beneficial environment for storage projects
• Is cable pooling the answer to quicker grid connections and will this work for storage in the future?