Energy Storage Summit 2018: Fluence's Marek Kubik

There is a perception that “batteries cannot be long life assets”, but it depends very much on how they are designed and used, Dr Marek Kubik of Fluence has said. Kubik, responsible for strategic and market direction at the energy storage technology and financing solutions provider which was formed as a joint venture (JV) between AES Energy Storage and Siemens, spoke with Energy-Storage.News at the Energy Storage Summit in London last month. In the interview, Fluence’s Marek Kubik discusses topics including: The arrival of revenue stacking as a commonly-talked about aspect of storage project development Why solar firming with energy storage is part of the market’s natural “direction of travel” and when we can expect dispatchable solar to become a mainstream proposition How energy storage can squeeze some thermal generation, particularly combined cycle gas turbines (CCGT) from being need to balance the grid with response times of “hundreds of milliseconds” The ways in which this provision of ‘digital inertia’ can aid decarbonisation