IRENA’s Electricity Storage Roadmap: Concluding Workshop

Dusseldorf, Germany

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) held its fourth “International Energy Storage Policy and Regulation” workshop alongside Energy Storage Europe, in Dusseldorf.  The aim of the workshop was to provide a final opportunity for IRENA member countries and other stakeholders to provide their input, feedback and comments on the electricity storage roadmap that has emerged from the series of discussions. This roadmap is part of IRENA’s global roadmap, REmap 2030, which indicates ways countries and regions could transform their energy sectors soon enough to avert catastrophic climate change. The share of renewables in the global energy mix could be doubled cost effectively, in less than two decades, using technologies already existing today, according to IRENA’s REmap analysis.

About 40 participants attended, including 16 representatives for IRENA Member governments, as well as energy storage associations, research institutes, academia and industry.

Ahead of the meeting, IRENA shared its blueprint that identified four priority areas for energy storage to support renewables deployment, and a number of action items within each of these priority areas. Participants were asked to prepare interventions to discuss their feedback on any of the action items.

The workshop was opened by Ruud Kempener, IRENA’s technology roadmap analyst, who presented an overview of the different priority areas and action items identified (presentation).

The results and conclusions of the workshop can be found in the workshop proceedings.

At the end of the conference, three simple questions were posed to some of our delegates, regarding the role of energy storage in the deployment of renewable energy and what lessons learned they will take from the workshop. Watch their video interviews:

IRENA Interview with Ruud Kempener, International Renewable Energy Agency

IRENA Interview with Diego Jijón, National Institute for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energies, Ecuador

IRENA Interview with Anil Kumar, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, India

IRENA Interview with Thembakazi Mali , South African National Energy Development Institute

IRENA Interview with Paul M. Marks, Lockheed Martin

IRENA Interview with Galal Osman, Mansoura University Egypt & World Wind Energy Association 

IRENA Interview with Tetsuji Tomita, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan  

IRENA Interview with Rahul Walawalkar, Customized Energy Solutions & Indian Energy Storage Alliance

Interventions were made by:

  • Diego Jijón, National Institute for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energies, Ecuador, Ecuador renewable energies towards electricity storage systems (presentation)
  • Eun Young So, International Renewable Energy Agency, Accelerating PV cost reductions in Africa (presentation)
  • Anne Monnier, Akuo Energy, France, Storage Solutions for Renewable Energies integrations in islands (presentation)
  • Tchouate Heteu Pépin, DEECC Consulting, Belgium, Comments on IRENA’s Workshop on the Electricity Storage Roadmap (presentation)
  • Chris Edgette, Strategen Consulting, USA, Global Energy Storage Database (presentation)
  • Jurgen Timpert, DNV GL, the Netherlands, Standardisation in residential energy storage (presentation)
  • David de Jager, International Energy Agency Renewable Energy Technology Deployment, Insights from RE-PROSUMERS and RE-INTEGRATION project for electricity storage (presentation)
  • Franck Al Shakarchi, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, France, IRENA Technology Roadmap on Electricity Storage for Renewables: Innovative Regulation and Incentives (presentation)
  • Andreas Zucker, Joint Research Centre, European Commission,  
    Need for advanced models for assessing electricity storage as part of the wider system (presentation)
  • Jian Liu, National Renewable Energy Center, Energy Research Institute, National Development and Reform Commission, China, Electric Vehicle and Energy Storage Implications on Power System Flexibility in China (presentation)
  • Chris Edgette, Strategen Consulting, USA, Regional process for Energy Storage Evaluation  (presentation)

Presentation and proceedings from IRENA’s previous International Energy Storage Policy and Regulation workshops can be found at the links below:

The Transformative Power of Storage: Developing IRENA’s Electricity Storage Roadmap, Dusseldorf, Germany, 27 March 2014

Self-Consumption of Renewables: The role of storage in revolutionising grid infrastructure, Tokyo, Japan, 7 November 2014

Electricity Storage: Technologies, regulation and policies supporting small- and large scale deployment of renewables, New Delhi, India, 3 December 2014.