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Smart Storage to support

renewables

Digitally smart, within a proactive regulatory system
and with the option of long duration, energy storage can really
support renewables to achieve ‘Net Zero’ emissions

Antonio Zingales, Director, Corporate Development & Innovation
SAET

1 MW/0.5 MWh Energy Storage plant in Wien (Austria) for VERBUND Hydro Power GmbH

T he world has agreed to a set of To increase RES means to provide

the relevant flexibility
shared targets on climate change.
The new must is to limit the rise in global temperature
deep
targets
Those
require
decarbonization, relatively quickly.
to 1.5° Celsius by reducing emissions: to achieve
This transition to a low-carbon
reduce emissions and the power electricity sector
sustainable future with Renewables
will be central to global decarbonization. It is known
development involves Energy Storage, because this commitment, great efforts must be made to
Energy Storage is becoming the critical enabler, that deep decarbonization is going to involve an
given its ability to level the variability of electricity enormous amount of electrification. As we push
production, which in turn can increase grid reliability carbon out of the electricity sector, we pull other
and stability and therefore great prospects for energy services like transportation and heating into
Storage are expected (see Fig. 2). While Storage it. As a result, innovative solutions will be essential
technologies are still nascent, deployment could to meet three critical challenges for the power sector
accelerate rapidly in the next few years. (tab. 1):

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