We hear from US distributed and C&I solar and storage developer-operator Convergent Energy and Power about its financing, its pipeline and strategy, as it and Scale Microgrids both announce US$150 million multi-project bank financing deals.
Eolian has pulled plans for a 100MW/400MWh standalone BESS facility that was proposed for the Town of Catskill in Greene County, New York, following a drawn-out permitting process with the local planning authority.
Grid constraints have prevented Chile from maximising the potential of its worldclass solar resources. Energy storage has therefore become a necessity to ensure the financial
viability of PV projects, writes Jonathan Tourino Jacobo.
Inflexible and complex, the warranty model for energy storage systems has failed to keep
pace with rapid market growth. Valentin Lorscheid and Dr. Kai-Philipp Kairies of ACCURE Battery
Intelligence propose ways in which warranties can be reformed as the industry matures.
Rho Motion’s head of research Iola Hughes analyses some of the market trends shaping
the dynamic battery energy storage market as its growth accelerates worldwide.
The Planning and Development Services Department at California’s Imperial County has prepared initial environmental assessment documents for a 800MW hybrid solar and BESS facility proposed by developer RAI Energy.
Vanadium flow batteries could be a workable alternative to lithium-ion for a growing number of grid-scale energy storage use cases, say Matt Harper and Joe Worthington from Invinity Energy Systems.
Investor-owned utility (IOU) Southern California Edison (SCE) is seeking regulatory approval of resource adequacy (RA) contracts covering 620MW of BESS capacity across three projects.
We get the reaction from other BESS suppliers, consultancies, research firms, optimisers, investors and IPPs to BYD launching a BESS using sodium-ion battery cells, a technology many see as a potential competitor to lithium-ion.
