Battery storage warranties are complex and inflexible and can add ‘prohibitive’ costs and risks for some asset owners, according to ACCURE Battery Intelligence.
Developer Upstream Energy has negotiated a resource adequacy (RA) agreement with California community choice aggregator (CCA) Clean Power Alliance (CPA) associated with the developer’s standalone Olinda BESS project located in Los Angeles County, California.
Engie has signed an ‘energy storage as a service’ contract with technology provider Energy Dome for a long-duration energy storage (LDES) project in Sardinia, Italy.
San Antonio, Texas utility CPS Energy and developer OCI Energy entered into a long-term storage capacity agreement (SCA) for a 120MW/480MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) 6 December.
The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) approved an application from Consumers Energy Co. for a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Voyager Energy Storage LLC for a 100MW/400MWh battery energy storage facility.
Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) is seeking regulatory approval of two Energy Storage Agreements and a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity covering 350MW of energy storage capacity across three projects.
Aypa Power has negotiated two resource adequacy agreements with Pacific Gas & Electric covering 500MW/2,000MWh of energy storage from two standalone BESS projects in the Californian cities of Industry and Irwindale.
In the rapidly growing but still relatively new battery energy storage sector, equipment procurement and integration for large projects presents numerous risks.
