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Perspective on flexibility: How batteries, demand response, and interconnectors are powering a new grid
As renewables surge and baseload plants retire, the energy system is facing an urgent need for flexible capacity to balance increasing volatility. While long-term solutions like batteries, interconnectors, and green hydrogen are underway, several short-term measures – from pairing new renewable energy plants with storage to leveraging underused grid connections – could help bridge the flexibility gap now. Sven Heiligtag, Managing Director at Vireo Ventures, explores both the challenges and actionable opportunities to stabilize the grid during the transition.
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World’s first battery storage system to provide full active and reactive power services comes online
Blackhillock in Scotland is not only Europe's biggest operating battery storage project. It is also the first one to provide a special set of grid stabilization services, procured under the electricity system operator's Pathfinder 2, while also generating revenues from other critical services.

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