Battery storage becomes increasingly important in the quest to fully utilise renewable energy sources. (source: Sme)
As battery storage becomes increasingly important in the quest to fully utilise renewable energy sources, a raft of projects in Slovakia is looking to develop cutting-edge battery solutions.
While production of power from renewable energy sources, especially wind and solar, is seen as key to helping countries reach climate change targets in the coming decades, experts have long pointed to their main disadvantage: inconsistency of supply when compared to fossil fuels.
The solution to the problem is widely seen as being in battery energy storage systems (BESS). These would help store excess energy and in turn be used to optimise energy costs, stabilise power grids, enable the creation of energy communities, and ensure the preconditions for the construction of new power plants to harness renewable energy sources.
“In particular, these systems will allow their operators or owners to use stored surpluses of cheaper electricity during expensive peaks, when there is less electricity in the grid and it is more expensive,” Andrea Straková Fedorková, an expert on lithium-ion battery systems at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice and the new head of the Slovak Battery Alliance (SbaA), told the Hospodárske Noviny daily.
“At the same time, a battery helps to eliminate voltage fluctuations and stabilise the transmission system, contributing to the possibility to connect new sources to the grid,” she added.
