Over the last 18 months wind developers have started thinking about how they too can add a battery to upcoming projects, with most now looking at the issue.
Energy consultant Marijia Petkovic says that every developer she knows is now looking at battery storage from the earliest stages of project development, but work still needs to be done to work out how these will best function in Australia’s rapidly changing energy market.
“They’re planning for it from the start, which is very different to what the case was a couple of years ago,” Petkovic, the founder of EnergySynapse, told the Wind Energy Forum in Melbourne last week.
“I think we’ll see wind and best hybrids becoming just as common as solar-based hybrids.”
Developers are now looking at batteries because low prices are increasingly a challenge for wind farms all over the National Energy Market (NEM).
