Kiran Kumaraswamy of Fluence Energy –Grid-Scale Energy Storage—Market Applications Outlook (PDF) showed off the business application side of energy storage today. Namely, the presentation looked at how a leading supplier of solutions must learn to bend and twist as the markets dictate needs.
Incidentally, Fluence was part of the team that delivered a 30 MW/ 120 MWh lithium-ion energy storage power plant, in a grid emergency situation, within six months, on a 1 acre parcel where a fossil fuel power plant couldn’t be permitted.
Kumaraswamy’s presentation echoed others noting that different marketplaces had different product demands and that it was important to have a unique perspective in each utility marketplace. Reminders of the fact that solar power exists in nearly 50 unique state marketplaces, and that in order to work with various groups you have to “depict the value of storage to their network”.
The above slide was preceded by real life examples of economic arguments to two western U.S. utilities. These two slides very much complemented the language put forth by Abdelrazek of Duke Energy (covered yesterday), who spoke of developing a tool that would guide his teams in determining where energy storage could most economically be deployed within the grid.
One might assume we are in the economically low-hanging fruit portion of the energy storage evolution.
The technical capability of an energy storage plant, showed off below by Kumaraswamy, underlies the risk to the gas peaker plant market. A 100 MW energy storage facility has the ability to offer four times as much energy services within the same 100 MW nameplate.
Remember – GE is laying off members of these highly skilled and talented teams.
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