‘As deployments grow, so does the need,’ says Sungrow North America cybersecurity director
The rapid digitisation of energy infrastructure represents a big challenge, says Michael Hudson, cybersecurity strategy director at Sungrow North America.
‘It depends’: Designing battery storage for AI data centre co-location is a moving target
The many considerations developers must factor in when deploying battery storage for data centres were discussed on a panel at Energy Storage Summit USA 2026.
‘Unfettered optimism’ on US BESS degradation hits wall of operational reality
Industry leaders warned that “unfettered optimism” regarding battery degradation is hitting a wall of operational reality.
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.
Don’t miss the moment: Why we must scale long-duration energy storage now
Now is the moment for long-duration energy storage to become a key pillar of the energy transition, writes LDES Council CEO Julia Souder.
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.
