Floating Solar PV: A sea of opportunities

oin us for an engaging panel discussion on energy storage featuring experts from Duke Energy, TECO, Wartsila, and Powin Energy. Our panelists, moderated by McKim & Creed’s published Director of Renewables, Sol Haroon, will explore how energy storage can help meet the challenges of obtaining and utilizing clean, predictable, dispatchable and resilient power in the 21st century. Discussion will also include how energy storage is radically changing the renewable energy landscape and the path forward to developing a brighter energy future. To learn more about energy storage, we welcome you to join this conversation on Thursday, March 10 at Noon ET.

The webinar provided an overview of the Texas Competitive Renewable Energy Zones (CREZ) process, including the regulatory, procedural and technical considerations that were critical to its successful implementation in Texas. The webinar also introduced a Renewable Energy Zones “Toolkit” developed through a USAID and NREL partnership and intended to guide other power systems in adapting elements of the CREZ approach to their own power system planning processes.

The Latin American renewable energy industry has an enormous potential for development and growth. The region is geographically perfect to develop all kind of renewable energy sources and is committed to make it happen. However, first it needs to overcome some obstacles and bring more investments into the region.

Grid-connected microgrids hold the potential to facilitate the integration of renewable energy generation without expensive grid reinforcements, improve energy efficiency, resiliency and most importantly cut on costs and carbon. With an increasing number of distributed energy resources and dropping costs of energy storage, balancing energy supply and demand on a local level can create a variety of advantages. Wouter Vermeiden, Manager Business Development at ZOWN, and Demijan Panic, Innovation at E.ON, were joined by Thomas Boersma, Project Manager at Solarplaza, to explore opportunities for grid-connected microgrids.