Insurance Innovation Rewarded. Congratulations to the team at kWh Analytics, especially Jason Kaminsky and Richard Matsui who couch surfed their way to building an incredible business. A 14 year overnight success as they say, as kWh gets acquired by Beazley.
Digital Interconnection. Regulators tend to see trends a bit in the rearview mirror but using storage as an interconnection aide is an obvious one that the industry has been talking about and hoping that the market operators adopt at bigger scale. That being said, they also need to be looking ahead (and asset owners should self regulate) if they think that batteries can be operated with underdeveloped, subpar and offshore software controls. If we’re going to use batteries to interconnect America’s AI infrastructure, then we know what doing it right looks like.
- Yahoo Finance!: Beazley agrees to acquire US-based kWh Analytics
- PV-Magazine: California’s SB 886 could make storage a prerequisite for data center interconnection
- Canary Media: Suddenly, the US manufactures a ton of grid batteries
- Axios: Rare offshore wind reversal highlights shift under Trump
- Bloomberg: Expensive Oil Is EV Makers’ Best Sales Pitch
- Reuters: CERAWeek opens with protests as energy chiefs clash
- PV-Tech: Solar wafer origin could be ‘significant risk’ for US industry, lawyers warn
- Energy Storage News: Nebraska advances energy storage and data centre-focused bill
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Best, Yann