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22 Autumn 2018 European Energy Innovation
SOLAR ENERGY
Unleashing the power of
Solar & Storage
By Raffaele Rossi, Policy Analyst, SolarPower Europe
While the uptake of an important flexibility tool allowing and Enel. Aim of the Task Force is
solar power worldwide for the provision of more stable, to ensure that benefits of solar and
progresses at an ever- less variable and fully dispatchable storage are recognised and effectively
increasing pace, the solar energy, increasing the system communicated to stakeholders and
potential of solar energy still remains integration of solar PV. policymakers, in order to capture
largely untapped. The European the full potential of coupling such
Union currently sees around 5% of its SolarPower Europe, the Brussels- technologies.
electricity demand covered by solar, based association representing
but this amount could easily grow to the sector along the whole solar The benefits provided by solar
15% by 2030. photovoltaic value chain, supports and storage are manifold. From
the deployment of storage a technical perspective, storage
A key factor linked to the deployment technology through its Task Force optimises solar supply by absorbing
to solar is its co-location with battery on Solar & Storage, which includes the surplus generation and employing
storage. Solar and storage are a more than 25 leading companies in it at a later stage, when the demand
perfect match: storage represents this field, including Tesla, Sonnen is higher (see graph). The presence of
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