Microsoft, Meta (which owns Facebook), Fluence and more than 20 other energy storage developers and industry participants have formed the Energy Storage Solutions Alliance to evaluate the emissions reduction benefits of energy storage technologies, according to an external media report.
The goal of the consortium is to evaluate and maximize the greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction potential of energy storage technologies. As part of this, it will create an open source methodology to quantify the emissions reduction benefits of grid-connected energy storage projects, validated by a third party, Verra, through its verified Carbon Standard program.
The methodology will look at the marginal emissions of energy storage technologies, measuring the greenhouse gas emissions generated by charging and discharging energy storage systems on the grid at specific locations and points in time.
A press release states that the Energy Storage Solutions Alliance hopes this open source approach will be a tool to help companies make credible progress toward their net-zero emissions goals.
Meta is one of three members of the Energy Storage Solutions Alliance Steering Committee, along with REsurety, which provides risk management and software products, and Broad Reach Power, a developer.
We need to decarbonize the grid as quickly as possible, and to do so we need to maximize the carbon impact of all grid-connected technologies – whether they are generation, load, hybrid or stand-alone deployments of energy storage systems,” said Adam Reeve, SVP’s senior vice president of software solutions. ”
Facebook’s total electricity use in 2020 is 7.17 TWh, powered 100 percent by renewable energy, with the vast majority of that power being used by its data centers, according to the company’s data disclosure for the year.
Post time: Sep-23-2022