Green Development’s Morini Says Battery Storage Is Critical to Energy Grid
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Hannah Morini, the head of Community Relations & Project Developer for Green Development, joined GoLocal LIVE’s Business Monday discuss the future of renewable energy in Rhode Island and the critical role battery storage will play moving forward.
Morini says that while renewables -- wind and solar -- are growing and helping to diminish the reliance on fossil fuels, the production of renewables doesn’t always align with the demands of consumers and businesses.
Morini's Green Development now has projects in nearly 20 different Rhode Island communities and is Rhode Island’s largest onshore renewable energy company.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST“The problem renewable energy has been that it's intermittent. so it only you can only produce solar energy when the sun is shining,” said Morini.
She points out that New England is losing 5,200 megawatts of power between 2013 and 2022 from the decommissioning of fossil fuel plants that use oil and coal as wells as the closure of a nuclear facility.
One recent example was the closure of the Brayton Point power plant and then the implosion of its towers last month.
Morini says that renewable companies and the grid operators like National Grid must find ways to work more efficiently together to ensure renewable energy is stored and delivered to the grid to meet demands.
According to the trade magazine Windpower, "Last year, the U.S. energy storage market nearly doubled, and it is expected to double again in 2019. In the final quarter of 2018 broke the previous record for megawatt-hours deployed in a single quarter by 50%." That data was derived by a report from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Energy Storage Association (ESA).
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