KEMA Utility of the Future Guidebooks Vol. 2: The promise of energy storage

The KEMA guidebook on assessing wide-scale utility application of storage

Volume two of KEMA’s Utility of the Future Leadership Guidebook series, “The promise of energy storage,” explores the issues and questions surrounding the rapidly advancing energy storage technology. The guidebook provides a broad assessment of the electricity storage field and the latest thinking about storage applications.

 

In this guidebook KEMA offers the energy and utility industry the first comprehensive roadmap for wide-scale utility applications. It helps advance the process for assessing when there is a good business case for storage and when there is not—examining the implications of including storage in grid design and operation, the economics of storage, and the policy issues being raised.

 

The KEMA roadmap spells out specific application cases and methodologies for determining their cost-benefits. It identifies policy issues that improve the case and overall cost-benefit of storage. And it identifies how related trends in energy—RPS standards, smart grid, micro grids—all link to, and benefit from, the inclusion of storage in grid design and operation.

 

Catalyzing the energy storage future

In working with storage technology vendors and new innovations in storage around the world, it has become obvious that we need to rethink how the grid works. The power system that delivered electricity from large, centralized plants needs to make room for more distributed and renewable energy. Smart grid technologies help make the room needed in the power system. And storage can help complete the picture by addressing the intermittent availability of renewables.

 

To date there has not been a single, independent source of relevant information on the issues and questions that are being raised by the rapidly advancing energy storage technology. KEMA has created this guide to delve into the policy and process issues and to help the energy and utility industry navigate many issues around energy storage. 

 

Download “The promise of energy storage” guidebook prospectus for more information.

 

KEMA’s Utility of the Future Leadership Guidebook Volume 2 is NOW AVAILABLE. Order your copy online.