Customers procuring energy storage systems are emphasising their demand for energy, as well as power, as the market shifts to longer durations, a representative of Saft has said.
The European battery manufacturer has been active in the energy storage system (ESS) market since 2012, delivering around 100MW of operational projects to date. The recent launch at ees Europe of Saft’s new 20ft containerised NMC lithium-ion battery storage systems, available in 2.5MWh ‘blocks’, is a direct response to growing interest in energy storage for applications that go beyond storing and shifting short durations of energy to serve high-power applications, company energy storage business development and marketing manager Michael Lippert said.
“When we started to deliver our first containers, but at that time, the market was rather a paying for power [type of market] and so, therefore, our first generations of containers were more power-oriented, so for frequency regulation and for smoothing applications or ramp control,” Lippert told Energy-Storage.news at the show last week.
“Today, the energy storage market has very strongly shifted to more energy products. People are asking for two hours, four hours or maybe even more.”
According to Lippert, there are a variety of markets that are beginning to demand higher energy systems, although currently, the world’s maturing solar markets are showing the most interest. While storage systems by Saft and others were first deployed in those regions to deliver grid-balancing, through services such as frequency regulation to integrate renewable capacity onto networks, Saft’s customers find there is now a case for pairing renewables more closely with batteries.
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