Bankability of microgrids rises with decreasing renewable power and storage costs as well as higher grid flexibility and reliability, finds Frost & Sullivan’s Energy team
LONDON – 1 December 2016 – Microgrids are set to transform the distributed energy resources and energy storage systems market. Significant price declines in both distributed renewable power and battery technologies, coupled with increased technological advancements in control and energy management systems, have created a vision of highly reliable, efficient, flexible, renewable and “islandable” grid networks embedded with advanced smart grid technologies.
“Tying together decentralised power production through the use of microgrid control systems, energy storage, and smart technologies allows the efficient management of growing decentralised power production volatility without substantial investments into transmission upgrades and extensions,” said Frost & Sullivan Energy & Environment Senior Industry Analyst Ross Bruton. “These systems will ensure electricity supply reliability, while trading electricity to the central grid to be used for ancillary services in grid balancing. The decline in the prices of photovoltaics and storage, and the use of microgrids for remote electrification purposes, will allow for more rapid, cost-effective and renewable electrification of developing countries.”
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“With governments setting regulations and standards for efficient interconnection and operation, players across diverse sectors are swiftly entering the market with proprietary solutions for installation and management of distributed energy resources and storage to support associated loads,” noted Bruton. “Consolidation of these solutions into more standardised microgrid projects will represent one of the key vehicles to carry the market to broad-based commercialisation.”
North America accounts for almost 50 per cent of the global microgrid market, driven largely by the US market. The Asia-Pacific market, presenting key growth opportunities, is the second-largest market due to electrification in India and China, island grids in Indonesia, and industrial microgrids in Australia. The European Union, with the most secure electricity grids and highest penetration of smart grid technology, shows a limited need for islandable microgrid systems and is instead expected to represent a leading market for virtual power plant (VPP) solutions.
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