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.
New Jersey Senators seek to remedy state’s slow progress on energy storage deployment
A bill aimed at creating a pilot programme to incentivise energy storage deployment in New Jersey has advanced through the US state’s legislature after senators voted in its favour.
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.
Sunrun ‘distributed power plant’ helps California utility ride out summer peaks amid NEM 3.0 row
Sunrun has published the results of its Peak Power Rewards system, which saw residential solar systems deployed amongst its customers provide an average of 27MW of power to the California electric grid for 90 consecutive days.
LG Energy Solution predicts 30% growth in battery demand for global ESS market in 2024
Global demand for batteries for energy storage system (ESS) applications will grow 30% during this year, with the US leading the charge, LG Energy Solution has predicted.
AES gets regulatory approval for 200MW, 4-hour BESS at retiring coal plant in Indiana, US
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) has given its approval to a proposed large-scale battery storage project in development in the US state by AES Corporation’s regional utility subsidiary.
Regulator quashes ERCOT’s proposed state-of-charge rules for BESS
The Public Utility Commission of Texas has ordered the state’s grid operator ERCOT to rescind state-of-charge (SOC) rules requiring batteries to hold additional capacity to provide ancillary services.
Manufacturers, materials dominate Mercom 2023 list of top VC-funded energy storage companies
UK-headquartered Zenobē Energy attracted the most venture capital (VC) funding of any company in the energy storage industry during 2023, as found by Mercom Capital.
BESS projects represent ‘encouraging progress’ in New York efforts to replace dirty and polluting peakers
Battery storage is playing an active role in helping New York City retire its fleet of peaker power plants, with around 700MW of its most polluting power generation assets already fully retired.
California solar-plus-storage project with world’s largest BESS fully online
The Edwards & Sanborn solar-plus-storage project in California is now fully online, with 875MWdc of solar PV and 3,287MWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity, the world’s largest.
