Harmony Energy Income Trust (HEIT) has scrapped its first quarter dividend and appointed advisors JLL to sell some or all of its BESS assets, partly to demonstrate that the fund is undervalued by the markets.
Battery storage thrives on energy market volatility meaning there will be good years and bad years, a panellist at Solar Media’s Renewable Energy Revenues Summit 2024 said last week.
The first quarter of 2024 saw declines in US utility-scale energy storage deployments and revenues for US-based or focused system integrators, but the long-term pipeline and outlook remains healthy.
Global battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator Fluence saw an 11% revenue drop in revenues in the three months ending 31 March, 2024, while it is also launching a higher energy density product and US module production this year.
Average revenues for the Gresham House Energy Storage Fund doubled from February to April this year, fund manager Gresham House said in its full year 2023 results.
Italy-headquartered energy storage solutions provider NHOA Energy grew revenues 33% in 2023 despite a 20% industry-wide drop in prices, it said in its full-year results.
BESS route-to-market (RTM) and optimisation firms in the UK are increasingly looking at a wider variety of contracting mechanisms beyond the revenue-share or ‘merchant’ model, developer-operator Eku Energy told Energy-Storage.news.
Battery storage systems are “perhaps the most complex energy asset to optimise” from a market perspective, but the UK industry is handling those challenges.
