The failure of a grid-connected storage system at a solar farm in Hawaii is part of the learning process the US island state is undergoing to integrate more PV using storage, according to analyst Dean Frankel at Lux Research.
A so-called “accelerated capacity fade” which has reportedly taken place at a grid-connected solar farm in Hawaii is not a major setback, Frankel said. MIT Technology Review, the technology news website of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote today that the first of two grid-connected energy storage systems designed to aid the increased penetration of solar on the Hawaiian island of Kauai has failed.
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