Make plans now to attend IREC's 2015 3iForum at Solar Power International with two days of insightful 30-minute sessions from IREC's solar thought leaders. We'll be in the Solar Industry Trends booth #3717 on the SPI exhibition floor, September 15-17 in Anaheim, California.

Storage is cool. It's so ingrained in our daily lives that it's invisible. From the pantry closet and fridge storing our food to fuel tanks in our homes and cars, storage gives us the advantage to have something when we need it. It's there waiting to be used. So, doesn't it make a lot of sense to store excess power from photovoltaics and other distributed generation resources to provide backup during outages? And, wouldn't storage change the intermittent nature of PV on cloudy days and at night into a more dispatchable resource? Couldn’t it also provide other grid services to help maintain power quality and reliability?