Technical Coordinator:
Ibero-American Associations of Energy Regulators, ARIAE
DESCRIPTION:
Energy storage is fundamental for the integration of non-conventional renewable energy into the future low-emission power system. Its task is to store excess electricity and make it available to the power system when it is most needed to balance supply and demand and stabilize the grid.
To this end, although traditional Reversible Pumped-Storage Plants can be used, given the limited resources of this kind, there are developments for future use, such as lithium batteries, compressed air systems, green hydrogen, and solar thermoelectric systems with molten salt storage, among others.
In particular, sequentially connected batteries are undergoing a technological revolution at macro (connected to the transmission grid) and micro levels (associated with self-generation and self-consumption).
