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The 10 Things Likely To Be Missing From Tesla’s Stationary Storage News
For batteries to be truly transformative—for customers and the grid—we need to recognize the full range of values they can provide and remove barriers preventing customer-sited batteries from providing all of those values.
The Finance Industry on DERs: Solar and Batteries are Coming
If you want to see where the grid is heading, follow the money. And by that measure, the banks have spoken loudly.
Report Release: The Economics of Load Defection
The Economics of Load Defection is a new report that analyzes how grid-connected solar-plus-battery systems will become cost competitive with traditional retail electric service and why it matters to financiers, regulators, utilities, and other electricity system stakeholders.
The Distributed Energy Storage Industry In One Chart
Thanks to these projections and no shortage of media coverage, an outsider could be led to believe that distributed storage is capable of solving many of our electricity system ills. However, we’re not quite there yet.
Helping Battery Cost Declines Keep Going and Going…
Balance-of-system costs today make up the majority of system prices. That’s today’s land of opportunity for further cost declines in solar. And now, battery energy storage is undergoing a similar evolution.