"After more than 20 years of development, the solar industry has achieved grid parity ahead of schedule. Now the industry's goal is to achieve grid parity for 24-hour adjustable solar-storage power stations between 2025 and 2030. Simply put, in the future, solar energy and energy storage can be combined to build 24-hour-callable, grid-friendly power stations like thermal power. If this goal is achieved, the goal of building a new power system with new energy as the main body will be realized." Gao Jifan, Chairman of Trina Solar, pointed out that the integration of solar energy and storage is an important means to improve the safe and stable operation of the power system. It is necessary to strengthen the collaborative planning, construction and operation management of solar energy storage enterprises and power grid enterprises, realize the complementary optimization of solar energy storage and power grid, improve the efficiency of new energy consumption and the adjustment ability of power system, and solve the problem of uncoordinated energy consumption of solar energy storage and power grid.

Industry insiders further pointed out that solar-storage integration is not simply a combination of solars and energy storage, but opening up two platforms, deeply integrating technologies, and flexibly adjusting configurations according to actual project conditions to achieve optimal overall system efficiency and maximize economic benefits of the project. From the perspective of the core technology of energy storage products, solar manufacturers enter the energy storage track more to play the role of integrators, and it is difficult to establish the advantages of the entire industry chain in a short time. At present, the energy storage market structure has not yet been formed. Under the development trend of solar-storage integration, it is bound to reshape the energy storage industry structure again.

Source: China Energy News