The intense competition between BESS suppliers in the European market and the ever-more dense products available increases technical risk and the possibility of contractual issues further down the line, a France-based advisor said.
BESS investments in the French market are moving to longer durations with saturation expected to hit the secondary reserve market, currently the main way operational projects make their money.
In the wide-ranging conversation, Shaw starts off by describing the year-end rush as a perennial challenge for the battery energy storage system (BESS) sector in the US.
Dan Taylor, director of engineering at optimisation and asset management provider Arenko, speaks to Energy-Storage.news about all things data in battery energy storage systems (BESS).
How similar is the technology of Exa Energy, which just connected a 100MW/1GWh carbon dioxide-based energy storage system to the grid in China, to that of Energy Dome? Â