Is Electricity Expensive?

It bothers me when I hear people saying that electricity is expensive. Even in Australia which has one of the highest electricity prices in the world, I believe it is still very cheap considering all services provided by electricity. While this is the fact that less than 35% of the electricity bill is due to […]

7 Facts That You Should Know About Battery Storage

We are very close to an era in which every household owns a battery pack. In fact, don’t be surprised if you soon sit around the dinner table with your family to discuss available options for purchasing a battery pack in the same way you do when you want to buy a car or a […]

One Way to Use our Technical Books

Well, it is already sad seeing many people (even intellectuals) to immerse themselves into their phone checking nonsense on Instagram and Facebook for hours. But, what I have seen today is a new level: using technical textbooks worth of hundreds of dollars to keep the door open. And it is happening in one of the […]

Why do I prefer Demand Response over Battery Storage?

Demand Response (DR) in essence is very simple: control loads to consume intelligently according to the real-time grid requirements. Well, many people will be scared just by reading the “control loads” part. I agree that it sounds scary, but let me explain and I hope I resolve the scary part. Nobody wants to tell you, the […]

Battery: A reality or a dream

Almost every day, we read something about batteries in the news. Is battery storage the optimal solution for the future power system operation with large renewable generation? If we are going to increase the share of renewable in the power generation portfolio, it would not be possible without more inertia and regulation services. Batteries can […]