Europe’s governments have ‘finally recognised the importance of battery storage’
ESN Premium speaks with Anna Darmani, energy storage analyst at Wood Mackenzie, about Europe’s sector evolution.
Behind the numbers: BNEF finds 40% year-on-year drop in BESS costs
BNEF analyst Isshu Kikuma discusses trends and market dynamics impacting the cost of energy storage in 2024 with ESN Premium.
‘Rolling the dice’: UK BESS developers brace themselves for grid connections reform
The UK is in the middle of a massive overhaul of its queue system for connecting projects to the grid, and BESS is one of the most oversubscribed technologies, leading to a “nervousness” for a lot of projects, law firm Freeths said.
Highly technical subject of battery analytics is ‘now something for the CFO to think about’
Kai-Philipp Kairies, CEO of analytics firm ACCURE, discusses some of the areas in which battery analytics can have the most impact on battery energy storage system (BESS) project success.
What goes up must come down: A review of battery energy storage system pricing
Despite geopolitical unrest, the global energy storage system market doubled in 2023 by gigawatt-hours installed. Dan Shreve of Clean Energy Associates looks at the pricing dynamics helping propel storage to ever greater heights.
Resource adequacy: The ‘significant changes’ expected in California’s main driver of utility BESS procurement
Attorney Seth Hilton discusses “a new dynamic for energy storage resources” around resource adequacy in California’s CAISO market.
Energy storage and energy density: an EPC’s view
Energy density is becoming a key tool in optimising the economics of battery energy storage projects as suitable sites become harder to find. Ben Echeverria and Josh Tucker from engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm Burns & McDonnell explore some of the considerations of designing projects on constrained land.
Making local planners comfortable with energy storage in their communities
Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with one of the authors of a report into how communities can evaluate energy storage project proposals.
