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We're heading to Energy Week Western Australia! 🌏 If you'll be there and would like to connect with Gridcog, reach out to Fabian Le Gay Brereton! 🎤 Also, check out Fabian's panel discussion on DER to CER and a consumer-led transformation of the electricity system to 2030 - 15th August starting at 3:50pm!

☀ Dive into this week's insights on the booming solar industry. Plus, discover subsidy trends, yield modelling, and market challenges in this week's insights.

🚗🔋 With EVs rising in the UK and the 2030 ICE vehicle ban approaching, EV charging infrastructure is a key element of the energy transition. In this video, Genna Boyle explores adding EV chargers, rooftop solar, and battery storage to a supermarket's energy setup. Running a 10-year simulation, we see increased grid import with EV chargers. Adding a battery solves unserved load issues and reduces costs. Gridcog helps you model multi-asset energy projects, ensuring they’re commercially and physically viable. 🌍⚡️ #ElectricVehicle #Solar #RenewableEnergy #BatteryStorage

⚡ We're thrilled to highlight a few more of the energy leaders from around the world who are using Gridcog to objectively inform new energy investment decision and accelerate the world's transition to net-zero. A big shout out out to CS Energy, Connected Energy, AMPERES, and EnergyAustralia; all great examples of the change makers we need to decarbonise the world's energy system 🙌

Did you know Gridcog includes global satellite derived irradiance data (TMY and Historical) and built in solar yield modelling? ☀ In the last few days, we’ve seen our customers modelling solar in some pretty cool places, so we thought we’d spin up a simulation to compare the solar yield of a 1MW ground-mounted solar farm in each of these locations. In Gridcog, you can choose to use a Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) in your simulations, or you can use recent actual irradiance data collected by Solcast, a DNV company. Solar is notoriously intermittent, with yields changing constantly. Although, Madagascar certainly seems like the ideal place to be at this time of year if you’re a solar module! 😎 #Solar #RenewableEnergy #SolarYield

This week's newsletter explores how flexible assets such as BESS and V2G aid in balancing the grid. 🔋⚖ Plus, we look at the Future Energy Scenarios 2024, and how you can configure complex EV fleet schedules in Gridcog. 🚛

🔋🌞 Are you curious about the financial viability of adding battery energy storage systems (BESS) to your solar farm projects? In our latest video, Laura Hoffmann-Ostenhof dives into the current landscape and future projections for BESS in Germany. Using Gridcog, she compares various scenarios including EEG-supported solar farms, non-EEG supported projects, and co-located solar plus battery setups. The analysis spans over 20 years using market data from the past 12 months. 📆 Key Insights: - Germany might reach 15 GW / 57 GWh installed BESS capacity by 2030 (Source: Study by Frontier Economics), but regulatory hurdles could pose challenges - With Laura's capex, opex and market data assumptions, her 7 MWp solar project, co-located with BESS and modelled in Gridcog could generate a positive cashflow from a battery >2 MWh in size - without EEG support - Projects sometimes make more sense than you’d think! While regulations may not always be supportive, data sometimes reveals that their impact is less significant than expected Unpack your data and explore how Gridcog can help you maximise your project's potential. ☀ 📈 #SolarEnergy #BatteryStorage #EnergyTransition #RenewableEnergy

🇦🇺 Australia is known for its ‘big things' – The Big Banana, The Big Merino, The Big Pineapple. In 2026, there will hopefully be another oversized attraction added to the list when the latest huge battery project is energised in Wellington, NSW. 🔋 Known as the Orana BESS, some creative financing was required to get the $650 million project up and running. Akaysha Energy, the battery developer, called for participation from 11 local and international financial institutions, and also struck a deal with EnergyAustralia for a 12-year ‘virtual toll’ offtake agreement for the asset. 💸 The offtake allows EnergyAustralia to virtually “charge” and “discharge” 200MW as a financial product that is separate to the physical operation of the BESS. When it’s completed, the 415 MW / 1,660 MWh Orana battery will be the largest BESS in the NEM! ⚡ #BESS #Australia #NEM #RenewableEnergy https://lnkd.in/ekYVpAuV

This week's newsletter dives into how cost-reflective network tariffs impact solar, storage, and EV charging projects. 🔌 Plus, a look at Gridcog's network tariff library, insight on network flexibility services, and an update on bidirectional batteries in the NEM!

🌍🔋 National Grid ESO's 2024 Future Energy Scenarios are out, spotlighting pathways to a net-zero Britain. 🚀 The ESO produced a range of outcomes between four suggested energy transition pathways. At Gridcog, we think the ESO’s “Holistic Transition“ pathway is the most exciting. This scenario sees a heavy role for electrification, flexibility and consumer engagement, while hydrogen’s main role is in industry. ☀️💨🔋 Renewable generation is expected to increase massively in all scenarios, increasing from 56GW in 2023 to up to 161GW by 2030 and to up to 309GW by 2050. What this looks like for some renewable technologies: - Solar capacity to increase by up to 167% by 2030, and up to 613% by 2050. - Onshore wind capacity to increase by up to 100% by 2030 and up to 205% by 2050. - Storage to increase by up to 347% by 2030 and up to 523% by 2050. 📈 Peak demand is expected to increase substantially too, up to 109GW by 2050 from 58GW today. A big driver of this is electrification of heat and transport. This highlights the need for grid upgrades and flexible assets. 🚗🏠 Consumer flexibility is still expected to play a large role in the energy transition. This is especially relevant in the Holistic Transition Scenario, where demand flexibility reaches 15GW in 2030 and 71GW in 2050 … a whopping 68% of which is expected to come from transport, 24% from residential consumer, and 8% from the I&C sector. We’d like to acknowledge the good work being done by the ESO by providing a transparent, future-focused, and comprehensive outlook! Ultimately, the implementation of these changes will come down to developing individual projects at specific sites with their own sets of challenges and opportunities. There will be massive investments into the energy transition over the next 25 years even in the most pessimistic or “Counterfactual” scenario. 💬 Reach out to Gridcog to see how you can be part of the energy transition! Our software allows you to model the energy transition on a site-by-site basis, showing you how to optimise your assets for maximum financial benefit while achieving your decarbonisation goals. #GBElectricty #ESO #NetZero #RenewableEnergy