Browsing: Grid

Global energy systems are entering a period of historic turbulence, as governments face overlapping crises across oil, gas, minerals, and electricity supply chains.

As Northern Ireland’s energy system grapples with the dual pressures of decarbonization and reliability, Larne-based renewable energy company RES has submitted a planning application for the Ballyross Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), a project designed to enhance grid flexibility near Larne, County Antrim.

Germany’s single electricity price zone, long considered a cornerstone of its liberalized power market, is now at the center of a debate about efficiency, grid stability, and fairness. As renewable generation expands rapidly in the north while industrial demand remains concentrated in the south, maintaining a uniform national price has led to mounting redispatch costs.

In today’s energy debates, certain assertions tend to echo most strongly—not because they’re accurate, but because they’re repeated.

Global fusion energy companies have deployed $543 million in supply chain investments targeting commercial grid deployment by the mid-2030s, yet specialized component manufacturing constraints threaten timelines as 90% of suppliers report demand surges exceeding current production capacity.

European electricity networks registered over 8,600 instances of voltage limit breaches in 2024, representing a more than twentyfold increase from 2015 levels as solar deployment accelerates beyond grid absorption capacity.

As America’s power grid strains under the dual challenge of integrating intermittent renewables and serving surging demand from data centers, operators are confronting a volatile new reality. The system’s increasing complexity is testing both technical resilience and market design, with implications rippling across the energy storage sector.

As global electricity systems grow increasingly dependent on renewable energy, precision in managing energy storage assets has become a decisive factor in grid stability and project profitability. Wärtsilä’s new GEMS Pulse platform directly addresses this operational challenge by transforming raw battery data into actionable intelligence—aiming to unlock the full financial and technical potential of energy storage systems.

By 2030, data centres are projected to consume 6% of Australia’s grid-supplied electricity — a share larger than that of the entire healthcare and social assistance sector.

Global renewable energy capacity is projected to expand by 4,600 GW by 2030, roughly equivalent to the combined installed capacity of China, the European Union, and Japan, according to the IEA’s Renewables 2025 report.