Power outages have become increasingly common, and longer in duration, due to extreme weather and temperature events. Behind-the-meter (BTM) batteries are proving their worth, as they have become more ...

Energy storage for the electrical grid is about to hit the big time. By the reckoning of the International Energy Agency (iea), a forecaster, grid-scale storage is now the fastest-growing of all the ...

We need to build grid-scale energy storage that is reliable and robust. This is especially important for addressing power shortages during extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, floods and winter ...

The US added 57 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of battery storage capacity to its electric grid last year – enough to supply the annual electricity needs of roughly ...

From plunging costs to policy upheaval, the global battery storage sector is transforming grid design—and facing unprecedented challenges. The energy storage industry stands at a pivotal crossroads.

As I mentioned in my Grid Modernization article, our electrical system was originally designed to supply instantaneous power with essentially zero storage capacity.* A structural inability to store ...

Renewable energy has long been touted as a major requirement in the fight to stave off the world’s growing climate emergency. Governments have been slow to act, but prices continue to come down and ...

As nation states grapple with the spectre of environmental and economic losses due to climate change, we’ve seen an ever greater push towards renewable energy sources to replace heavier polluters like ...

Industrial scale photovoltaic solar field installation in Rosamond, Kern County, California. This article is one in a series investigating the importance of modernizing and decarbonizing the electric ...

The AES Corporation AES is emphasizing its role as an early innovator and global leader in battery energy storage systems (“BESS”). The company developed the world’s first utility-scale lithium-ion ...

ORLANDO — Grid storage and storage clusters — are the terms interchangeable? They could be if you ask users and industry analysts who participated in several panels at Storage Networking World this ...

“Urgent action must be taken to avoid lagging grid infrastructures, which would delay the energy transition,” wrote Adrian Gonzelez. Image: Andrey Metelev via Unsplash. The deployment of grid ...