Jeff Bishop, co-founder and CEO of US developer Key Capture Energy joins our series looking back at 2023 and looking ahead to 2024.

As with previous years, our year in review wrap up of 2023 includes interviews with a handful of industry players from around the sector.

Global system integrator Fluence has been hit by a cross-complaint by the owner of the Diablo battery storage project in California, which is seeking a US$230 million refund for Fluence’s engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work on it.

The US energy storage industry’s upward growth trajectory has seen another record-breaking quarter, with 2,354MW and 7,322MWh of deployments in Q3 2023, according to Wood Mackenzie.

Energy storage system integrators are critical to the successful delivery and commissioning of a battery energy storage system (BESS) project, but they are perhaps also best-placed to service the asset once its in operation, argues Ray Saka of IHI Terrasun.

The UK government’s recently announced national Battery Strategy was intended as a roadmap to establishing a competitive value chain.

At COP28 last week, 11 countries joined a global consortium aimed at securing 5GW of battery energy storage deployments in low or middle-income countries.

After a difficult couple of years which saw the trend of falling lithium battery prices temporarily reverse, a 14% drop in lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery pack cost from 2022-2023 has been recorded by BloombergNEF.

Cost and availability of raw materials is the biggest among a number of challenges that must be addressed if US-made products will be able to meet demand for battery storage in the country.

Electric power distribution company WEL Networks and developer Infratec have launched their grid-connected battery energy storage system (BESS) in New Zealand.