Open AccessUtility Scale Storage: Sleeping Giant or Mirage?
Author(s) -
Kapsarc
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.30573/ks--2020-wb11
Subject(s) - renewable energy , enabling , environmental economics , scale (ratio) , energy storage , grid , business , electricity generation , distributed generation , natural resource economics , power (physics) , engineering , electrical engineering , economics , geography , psychology , physics , cartography , quantum mechanics , psychotherapist , geodesy
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, among other countries, has ambitious plans to install a significant amount of renewable capacity by 2040. A high share of renewable generation in the power system can, however, result in grid instabilities. Energy storage technology is one option that could address these challenges, being an enabler of increased renewable generation in the power sector.