Would-be battery manufacturers that could serve the US energy storage industry with domestically made cells are facing a “perfect storm,” Energy-Storage.news has heard.
Battery energy storage system (BESS) integrators Fluence and Saft have launched US domestic manufacturing, of modules and BESS containers respectively.
Executives at US flow battery manufacturer ESS Inc. have said the company will be able to continue into 2025 and reach a gigawatt-hour of annual production capacity next year.
Executives from battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator Fluence discussed the company’s recent third quarter results in an earnings call with analysts.
Battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator Fluence had a mixed third financial quarter, with a revenue fall and a narrowing down of its full-year guidance, but a record quarterly intake and increased profit margins.
System integrator Fluence Energy and investor Excelsior Energy Capital have entered into a supply agreement for 2.2GWh of BESS, which Fluence claims will utilise US-manufactured battery cells and modules.
Hithium has become the latest overseas player to seek to onshore production of battery energy storage system (BESS) equipment and components in the US.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) put battery storage into the mainstream of the US energy industry, but also created supply chain complexities, writes Rauni Jaskari of Wärtsilä Energy Storage and Optimisation (Wärtsilä ES&O).
