Wasted wind power makes the case for batteries

Recharge News published a piece making the case that wasted wind power represents the strongest justification for large-scale battery deployment. The argument shifts the primary BESS value stack away from ancillary services and toward absorbing curtailed generation that would otherwise be lost.

The framing matters for asset managers pricing greenfield projects. If curtailment volumes in constrained zones are large enough and predictable enough, the capture-price uplift from storing and redispatching that energy can underpin project economics without requiring optimistic balancing market assumptions.

No specific curtailment figures, zones, or project sizes are cited in the available headline. Analysts should treat this as a directional editorial rather than a data release, and cross-reference with TSO curtailment statistics for their relevant zones before updating investment cases.