Battery storage as peaking capacity: How Alamitos changed the game for California
When it was first proposed in 2014, at 100MW / 400MWh, Alamitos Battery Energy Storage System was the world’s biggest contracted battery...
Solar Power's Decade of Falling Costs Is Thrown Into Reverse
A key selling point that made solar energy the fastest-growing power source in the world—rapidly decreasing costs—has hit a speed bump....
Utilities Are Installing Big Batteries at a Record Pace
The energy storage industry is shattering records for battery deployments, underscoring its growing role in decarbonizing the economy. In...
Capacity deferral is the primary source of storage value
Big batteries derive most their value from replacing gas peaker plants and averting the installation of excessive amounts of transmission...
Batteries replace diesel for jumpstarting Indiana natural gas plants
FlexGen, an energy storage system integrator that counts GE and Caterpillar among its backers, said this week that a lithium-ion battery...
COVID-19 pushes energy storage leader out of market as competition intensifies
Battery storage producer NEC Energy Solutions is winding down its energy storage operations and will no longer pursue new projects,...
WoodMac: Wind, Solar and Storage to Dominate Europe’s Power Grid by 2030
Batteries will beat natural gas peakers on cost across Europe by the end of the decade, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie....
Tesla has a new product: Autobidder, a step toward becoming an electric utility
Tesla aims to eventually become a massive distributed electric utility, and we’ve now learned of a new product, Autobidder, which appears...
All The Energy Storage The Grid Needs Will Soon Be Under Our Noses
If energy and transportation planners stop seeing their sectors as separate markets for batteries—a World Resources Institute researcher...
Are Concrete Blocks the Next Batteries?
In August 2019, the Japanese multinational holding firm SoftBank invested $110 million in Swiss company Energy Vault. It was a major boon...
