The 2MW lithium-ion storage system,delivered and hooked up by Japan’s NEC, will be linked to the Chiaravalle substation in Calabria, a southern region that has seen a rapid build-out of PV arrays and wind farms.

“Energy storage and distributed energy management systems are crucial technologies to develop an efficient and cost-effective energy market in Europe, because they enable 100% of the power generated by renewable-energy sources to be used,” says NEC Europe's vice-president of smart grid solutions, Ugo Govigli.

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