by Sophie Vorrath |
“If you ever want to have round-the-clock solar, which the whole world does want to have, you have to have storage. Anything that can make it so that we have more on-demand power, especially with renewables, is going to be a big factor.” So said Bill Gross, cleantech champion and 1996 founder of Idealab, in a January telephone interview before traveling to this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. And what Bill says... well. Anyway, it seems the people at US smart grid specialist S&C Electric were paying attention, because the Chicago, Illinois-based company has revealed it is set to start work on a pilot project that will integrate energy storage technology with solar photovoltaic panels to provide households with solar power through the night.BusinessGreen spoke this week with S&C Electric Europe's managing director Andrew Jones, who said the £200,000 project involved the installation of a 75kW lithium ion battery system at an undisclosed eco-home project, to test the ability of households to store the solar energy generated during the day and release it through the night, when people get home from work and start turning things on.
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