As energy storage serves as a foundational pillar for renewable energy integration, our team started to research how energy storage systems enhance renewable energy. Despite being environmentally-friendly, renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power, have a high risk of intermittency, making it difficult to safeguard a steady electricity supply. Moreover, the net-zero emissions plan has also been announced by a total of 145 countries worldwide, including “Taiwan’s Pathway to Net-Zero Emissions in 2050.” As a result, Taiwan has been inspired to investigate how the support energy storage systems can provide to renewable energy adoption and facilitate the progress towards carbon reduction targets.
Through connection with one of our teammates’ family members, we discovered SEETEL Energy. SEETEL Energy is a Taiwanese local company that focuses on the maintenance of grid stability. Through demonstration of how a practical business handles intermittency and enhances grid resilience, investigation of SEETEL Energy provided our team substantial insight into the bridge between knowledge with practical industrial implementations.
Our project has a tight relationship with the local community of Taiwan, where energy sustainability and shortages have become increasingly severe issues. Simultaneously, Taiwan is actively forging ahead with renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power while reducing reliance on non-renewable sources. These energy resources, nevertheless, have a number of limitations, as their production depends primarily on variable conditions.
This creates challenges of providing a stable and reliable energy supply to local communities, including both industries and households. Through the investigation of the connection between different local companies and such major humanitarian and environmental crises, the project enables us to better understand the support of technologies in sustainable energy.
The project focuses primarily on exploration of the Taiwanese energy industry, specifically on energy storage mechanisms and their contribution to the growth of scale and availability of renewable energy.
Specifically, the mitigation of energy supply fluctuations, the enhancement of grid stability, and strengthening of Taiwan’s energy reliability are all beneficial impacts energy storage systems, like the ones produced by SEETEL Company, can contribute to the Taiwanese industry in such a discipline. This is a particularly crucial approach, as Taiwan is transitioning towards the harness of more renewable energy in the present era.
Starting from left, our guiding teacher Dr. Bear Shaw, CEO & CSO of SEETEL