Two energy storage topics appeared to come up in conversation more than any other at the first day of RE+: US domestic content and the race for energy density increases.
Tech giant Google has announced a partnership with utility SRP to help accelerate the commercialisation of non-lithium long-duration energy storage (LDES) technology.
California community choice aggregator (CCA) Orange County Power Authority (OCPA) and independent power producer NextEra Energy Resources (NEER) have agreed on the terms of a flexible offtake agreement relating to a 115MW/460MWh standalone BESS.
“The industry has to continue to be aggressive,” says Luigi Resta, president of US renewable energy and energy storage developer rPlus Energies, on the US remaining a competitive market for energy storage.
Flatiron Energy has commenced initial proceedings to construct a 168MW/672MWh BESS at the site of a former coal-fired power plant located in Bristol County, Massachusetts.
Emerging tech must prove it can outcompete the incumbent, writes Sightline Climate analyst Lukas Karapin-Springorum, outlining the state of play in LDES technology today.
The US energy storage industry is becoming better equipped to handle the policy uncertainty which has characterised the year so far, Energy-Storage.news has heard.
With RE+ bringing thousands of energy storage professionals to Las Vegas this week, here are some announcements that have hit the Energy-Storage.news desk.
Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Ryan Hledik, Principal at the Brattle Group, and Lauren Nevitt, Senior Director of Public Policy at Sunrun, on the shaky future of California’s Demand Side Grid Support distributed storage programme.
