Who has got the batteries?

Written by Leonardo Meeus

Local electricity storage in batteries is nothing new from a technical point of view. What is new, however, is for someone like Elon Musk to succeed in making home batteries trendy. His Powerwall wouldn’t be out of place in many a living room. Everyone with his or her own battery system! Do we want that? Or would we rather have a larger battery for the neighbourhood? That might be cheaper than 100 small ones. And if we are talking economies of scale, do we want the responsibility for the infrastructure to be in the hands of TSOs or DSOs or in the hands of market players? Each option has its supporters.

In Germany, anyone who installed solar panels up to recently was able to get subsidies for the purchase of batteries. In Italy, the TSO can invest in some installations and DSOs can also propose pilot projects, as in the UK.

 

Read the other articles from Leonardo Meeus


More on Electricity

The best papers of our Alumni from ‘Evolution of Electricity Markets in Europe’ 2023
The best papers of our Alumni from ‘Evolution of Electricity Markets in Europe’ 2023

Electricity Market Design after the crisis: wholesale reform? Final paper by Michael Low, Constança Leite de Almeida, Ajeet Pratap Singh, …

New challenges for DSOs in the energy transition
New challenges for DSOs in the energy transition

On October 25th 2023, FSR hosted the FSR Debate “The new role of distribution system operators” (DSOs). The panelists discussed…

Evolution of Electricity Markets in Europe: an online course success story
Evolution of Electricity Markets in Europe: an online course success story

The Evolution of Electricity Markets in Europe (EEME) is the name of an online course with more than 1200 alumni…

Join our community

To meet, discuss and learn in the channel that suits you best.

scroll

top