Sunrun and Ford are running a potentially game-changing first of its kind vehicle-to-home energy storage experiment this summer, leveraging the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck.
Small-scale solar arrays, wind turbines, and other distributed resources are turning ratepayers from consumers into renewable energy heroes.
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Mark Dyson How Utilities are Taking Advantage of Customer-Owned Energy Storage and Demand Flexibility Energy storage is one of the hottest topics in the electricity industry today. As battery costs decline, many actors are recognizing the huge potential of storage to lower the cost … [continued]
The worldwide capacity of distributed energy storage systems is expected to increase nearly 10-fold over the next 3 years, according to a new report from Navigant Research, which analyzed the global market for distributed energy storage systems through 2024. The primary conclusion of the report is that distributed storage is … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Garrett Fitzgerald, Ph.D. and Jesse Morris Battery-based energy storage can play a valuable enabling role when it comes to renewable energy adoption, but storage can also do much more. Services such as peak shifting, backup power, and ancillary grid services are a small subset … [continued]
A new report from Navigant Research is forecasting distributed energy storage revenue to exceed $16.5 billion by 2023, due to “rapid innovation and intense competition.” The report, published Monday, analyzed the global market for distributed energy storage systems, including global market forecasts for power capacity, energy capacity, and revenue. In … [continued]
Southern California Edison announces a “staggering” 2,221 MW energy buy that includes a whopping 250 MW of centralized and distributed energy storage.
Originally published on Rocky Mountain Institute. By Lela Gucclone. “We have met the enemy and he is us.” So said the long-running American comic strip Pogo in a 1970 Earth Day poster about pollution. Late last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s most respected scientific authority on the climate … [continued]
The National Alliance for Advanced Technology Batteries (NAATBatt) last week issued a white paper on “the benefits that would result from widespread deployment of distributed energy storage (DES) systems.” A copy of this white paper was also provided to U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu in April. The white paper, … [continued]
