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Renewables 2023 Global Status Report Collection Energy Systems & Infrastructure - Key Headlines in 2022

31 Jul 2023

• Across the United States and Europe, an estimated 1,000 GW of solar projects were reportedly stuck in the interconnection queue as of 2022, close to four times the amount of new solar capacity installed globally during the year. [...] o In 2022, India and the Maldives signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a transmission interconnection for renewable energy. [...] • Digitalisation, such as data analytics in weather forecasting, energy storage optimisation, blockchain-based energy trading and virtual power plants (VPP) can be used to exploit and leverage the physical capabilities, or hardware components, of the system (such as the sensors of a weather station), together with the software capabilities (such as the algorithms used to forecast the weather condi. [...] • Non-variable renewable energy plants enable the power output to be controlled to meet signals imposed by the operator to ensure that the supply meets the load requirements. [...] • Incentives and investment in systems and infrastructure include: o In China, the release of the 14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of New Energy Storage Technologies in March 2022 called for government and private entities to build additional storage capacity, paving the way for more targeted investment.

Authors

Yuko KOMAZAWA

Pages
3
Published in
France