The Global Solar Council, the Washington, DC-based membership body, is embracing a global battery energy storage deployment through becoming what, as per it, is the world’s first global trade association for battery storage.
The nonprofit organization went ahead and announced this move at New York Climate Week as well as the 80th United Nations General Assembly, along with the Connecting the Sun report, which it has prepared for global leaders and includes the recommendations for speeding up worldwide battery rollout.
It is well to be noted that the GSC wants countries to execute national storage strategies and also incorporate batteries into energy system planning, reward the grid agility as well as services provided by batteries, construct regional super-grids and at the same time build interconnectors to drive the network flexibility further, go ahead and de-risk solar along with the energy storage investment across the developing markets, and speed up the new energy storage technology like the grid-forming inverters so as to bolster the energy system resilience along with flexibility.
Apparently, the GSC added that with global trade association for battery storage, it has commenced collaborations along with the Global Battery Alliance, the Future Storage and Systems Integration Alliance (FESSIA), and the International Battery and Energy Storage Alliance (IBESA) to span manufacturing, mining, and roll-out as well as recycling.
According to the CEO of the Global Solar Council, Sonia Dunlop, today they happen to be pioneering a completely new era when it comes to global energy leadership, and until today, the fastest-growing energy storage technology in the world had no unified global voice. However, that changes now. Solar, along with storage, has evolved right from complementary technologies to integrated solutions, therefore transforming how the world goes on to think about locally produced and dependable power. GSC is enhancing so as to lead this transformation, as they need to move beyond the traditional silos and, at the same time, help the policymakers understand and execute the pivotal infrastructure that this decade so importantly needs.
The support has come from various company CEOs as well as dignitaries who are backing the new alliance. According to the CEO of SMA Solar Technology, Jürgen Reinert, the modern grid happens to depend on the grid-supporting technologies. Only through integrating solar as well as storage solutions along with intelligent energy management can one unlock the complete potential of solar power, therefore making it dependable, agile, and also secure for one and all. Apparently, this organization is listed as an author and supporter of the Connecting the Sun report.
As per Erik Solheim, who happens to be the GSC Global Ambassador and also a former head of UNEP, as well as a former Minister of Energy for Norway, solar plus storage happens to represent the most decisive step that humanity can take in order to secure a clean and affordable as well as resilient energy future.
The GSC in the report remarked that it will go on to represent the sub-8-hour battery storage BESS market; however, it stands unwavering in its support for certain other renewable as well as storage technologies.
It is well to be noted that in the past, SolarPower Europe had launched the Battery Storage Europe Platform so as to advance the business model along with the regulatory framework for battery energy storage throughout the European Union and has at the same time also called for a tenfold growth when it comes to battery energy storage throughout Europe by the end of the decade. The GSC happens to take a much wider, international view, while at the same time, advancing similar objectives.
