Renewable energy is a critical path to a sustainable future, but renewable energy generation is dependent on extremely variable weather patterns.
On a partially cloudy day, solar photovoltaic output can swing from zero to full output erratically, within milliseconds. This is a major challenge for utilities, both at the distributed-generation scale at homes and businesses, and at utility-scale generation solar systems.
In regions with large-scale wind farms, wind producers are sometimes forced to curtail their consumption on particularly windy days when there isn’t enough demand to meet supply. This is a wasted clean resource.
Tying these systems to distributed energy storage systems allows utilities and renewable energy providers to “smooth” out the generation so that it can be used when it is needed.
