A battery storage system can meet every contracted performance guarantee and still leave its owner watching day-to-day output fall short of expectations.

Charley Grimston from battery storage insurance firm Altelium compares the sector’s development with the early stage of the wind market.

We hear from two battery storage insurance industry sources about how they view the technology and the main risks they assess when designing policies.

Dr Matthias Vetter, head of department for electrical energy storage at the testing institute Fraunhofer ISE on educating investors, the prospects for 2nd life batteries and the impact of thermal management on project lifetimes.