Wilhelm van Butselaar, VP Growth and Business Development APAC at Fluence, believes batteries play a key role in energy transition and help enhance grid stability. (Photo: Wilhelm van Butselaar’s LinkedIn)
Significantly reduced costs of solar and wind energy generation in recent years have accelerated global energy transition. However, the intermittent nature of renewables poses a major challenge to grid stability, an essential step toward achieving net zero.
Wilhelm van Butselaar, VP Growth and Business Development APAC at Fluence, a global leading provider of smart energy storage solutions, shared his insights of how to advance the deployment of energy storage technologies amid today’s uncertain geopolitical landscape and create a new path for energy transition.
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Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are far from being just a supporting player in the grid. According to Butselaar, they play a central role in the energy transition by enhancing grid stability, improving energy reliability, and enabling the effective integration of intermittent renewable sources like solar and wind energy into the electricity system.