Does Russia need energy storage?

Energy storage is a top priority for everyone active in renewable energy and Russia is no exception. The Kremlin has plans to draw 4.5 percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2024, which means 5.5 GW of renewables capacity and the energy storage systems to offset the intermittency of wind and solar energy generation.

How many integrated power systems are there in Russia?

The seven integrated power systems of Russia's unified power system. The geographically isolated energy systems are Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Kamchatka Territory, Sakhalin, and Magadan Oblast, Norilsk energy Districts of Taimyr and Nikolaev, western energy systems of Sakha (Yakutia) [Image courtesy of eclareon, Reproduced from Ref. 30]

Does Russia get a fifth of its energy from hydropower?

Here’s a fun fact about Russia: it gets a fifth of its energy from hydropower. This might sound shocking for a country whose image is so tightly linked to oil and gas, but Russia has a lot of big rivers and it’s putting them to good use. Now, Moscow is moving into other renewables and, more interestingly, energy storage as well.

What is Russia's biggest renewable power auction?

Earlier this year, Russia launched its biggest renewable power auction to date, seeking bids for 1.9 GW in wind power generation capacity. Bids received topped 2.3 GW, despite unattractive local content requirements. Related: Is This The Missing Link In Lithium Batteries?

Will Russia's first train use hydrogen fuel cells?

It may not come as a surprise, that in Autumn 2019 Russian Railways reached an agreement with the country's largest train manufacturer and with the government-owned nuclear energy company for the production of the first Russia's trains using hydrogen fuel cells (to be first deployed in the Sakhalin region). 35

Will Russia supply lithium for electric cars?

Russia, in other words, is trying to secure supply of strategically important lithium to manufacture batteries on the multi-gigawatt-hour scale required for mass producing electric vehicles (a 1 GWh storage capacity is enough to equip 20 000 electric cars with a 50 kWh battery pack each).