EnergySage’s annual Solar Installer Survey offers insight into the changing business climate faced by today’s solar installers. By surveying more than 870 installers across the country, this report provides a detailed view of their installation history, marketing strategy, financing offerings, confidence level, and future plans.
The 2019 edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook – produced for the Business Council for Sustainable Energy by BloombergNEF, provides up-to-date, accurate market information on the U.S. energy landscape. It includes an in-depth look at the energy efficiency, natural gas, and renewable energy sectors, and covers emerging technology areas such as carbon capture, utilization, and storage; sustainable transportation; and energy storage.
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Energy storage is an increasingly cost-effective solution for electricity customers in a growing number of markets across the country, and this trend is expected to carry on as prices continue to fall. Yet regulatory frameworks and market rules in many parts of the country prevent customers from being able to provide or monetize the value their energy storage system can offer, impacting project investment decisions. Recent energy storage cost-benefit studies developed for Massachusetts, New York, and Nevada have revealed the potential value of energy storage systems to customers, utilities, and the electric system. Incentive programs can serve as a bridge on the path towards realizing this value, jumpstarting a state’s storage market while the necessary reforms are finalized to enable customers to secure financial compensation for the value their storage systems provide. The benefits in soft cost reduction of incentivizing the near-term deployment of megawatts can far exceed the costs of an incentive program.
IREC has published Making the Grid Smarter: State Primer on Adopting the New IEEE Standard 1547™-2018 for Distributed Energy Resources. IREC’s new resource will help states, regulators, and other stakeholders navigate the related technical and policy issues they will need to address in the next few years. This important national standard was updated last year to enable significantly higher penetrations of distributed energy resources on the grid. Adopted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the IEEE Standard 1547™-2018 for Interconnection and Interoperability of Distributed Energy Resources with Associated Electric Power Systems Interface introduces a menu of options that states across the U.S. will have to adopt and implement.
The Energy Storage Association's (ESA) Energy Storage STUDIO Conference covers the advancement and integration of technology to support electric service. Unlike other conferences, STUDIO brings together utilities, technology developers, and other stakeholders for ... expert technical study, peer-to-peer education, an exchange of real world solutions, objective-minded learning, and an intimate, non-sales pressure environment As an attendee, you will convene with technology leaders and come away with the knowledge necessary to accelerate energy storage solutions that support a clean, resilient, safe, and affordable grid.
The value chain and vendor ecosystem for storage projects is ripe for new entrants from other renewable power industries, both in project development and BOS component supply.
Greentech Media calls this new free report, The Grid Edge: Utility Modernization in the Age of Distributed Generation.
The latest report from EL PRO provides research on energy storage. If your enterprise is looking to reduce energy consumption at peak times, enhance the reliability and quality of its power, and integrate renewables or electric vehicles, this is a must-read report.
The inaugural Workshop on Microgrid Technology and Applications, organized by CFES in collaboration with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), will take place Oct. 10-11 in the Russell Sage Dining Hall on the Rensselaer campus.
The event has strong international partners through the strategic partnerships developed by IESA over the years, including international associations such as the Electricity Storage Association (ESA) ...
Joining the Summit will be speakers from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California ISO (CAISO), the Office of Governor Edmund G Brown, Jr., Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Diego Gas & Electric Company, Southern California Edison, Dynergy Power LLC, Independent Energy Producers Association, SunEdison, AES Energy Storage, Clean Line Energy Partners LLC, Energy Capital Partners, Chadbourne & Parke LLP, ICF International, EnerNOC, EnergyHub, Guardian Industries Corp. and many more.
The challenges inherent to integrating renewable energy into utility power grids will be in focus at the Renewable Energy Integration & Energy Storage Conference, taking place as part of European Utility Week 2013 from October 15-17 in Amsterdam.
The Advanced Energy Technology Congress taking place November 12-15, 2013 in San Diego includes ... three key battery industry events ... Lithium Battery Power 2013, Battery Safety and Next Generation Batteries. Advanced registration expires September 27th, 2013.
New E2 (Energy + Environment) research ... finds that American consumers are becoming less optimistic about electric vehicles (EVs) and their expectations of EV ownership, in great part due to concerns about battery life and recharging infrastructure.
The challenges inherent to integrating renewable energy into utility power grids will be in focus at the Renewable Energy Integration & Energy Storage Conference from 15-17 October in Amsterdam. The event will take place as part of the European Utility Week, attended by 8000+ smart energy professionals.
A new report from IHS, titled The Role of Energy Storage in the PV Industry , predicts that worldwide installations of photovoltaic (PV) energy storage systems for commercial use will grow to 2.3 GW in 2017, up from just 3.2 MW in 2012. The commercial sector’s share of global PV installations will also jump significantly, from 5 percent in 2012 to 40 percent in 2017, the report said.
While the commercial sector currently makes up the smallest part of the global solar energy storage business, it is projected to expand by a factor of 700 in the next four years and dominate the market in 2017.
Currently the smallest market segment at just 3.2MW, commercial storage is due to mushroom to almost 2.3GW by 2017, dwarfing use of the technology in residential and utility -scale PV.
The report, titled "Batteries Included: Gauging Near-Term Prospect for Solar/Energy Storage Systems," says grid-tied solar installations that feature an energy storage component (e.g., batteries) will total 675 MW in 2018. Off-grid applications, including telecom power, will total 36 MW ... while the off-grid market enjoys higher profit margins, the much larger addressable market for grid-tied battery-backup systems means they will dominate the integrated solar power/energy storage market
Grid-tied solar installations will comprise 675 MW, or nearly 95% of the combined 711 MW market, while off-grid applications including telecom power claim the remaining 5%. While the off-grid market enjoys higher profit margins, the much larger addressable market for grid-tied systems means they dominate the solar and energy storage market.
On 8 October, the Energy Institute (EI) will host a conference in Bristol on the role of energy storage in the UK energy system. This event will bring together industry experts from across the UK and Europe to examine the potential of energy storage as a key element in the UK's efforts to reduce carbon emissions, increase energy security and sustainability.
On Monday, September 16 from 1 – 2 p.m. ET, Clean Energy States Alliance will host a webinar on optimizing the benefits of a photovoltaic (PV) storage system with a battery. This webinar will be introduced by Dr. Imre Gyuk, Energy Storage Program Manager in the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability.
Exhibitions and Trade Fairs in partnership with the Australian Solar Council have officially announced the inaugural Australian Energy Storage Conference and Exhibition, to be held at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre from the 8–9 May 2014.