13GWh, Running How Well? There’s a lot of storage being built. I’m curious to how that storage is being commissioned and how fragmented the BMS and EMS systems are across those 13GWh given the need for safety and availability across those assets. Also, how much frustration is created for the asset management teams with having multiple platforms and if they’re missing any ingredients to running those assets. We’re still early in the storage world but the capacity is growing quickly.
Feedback Requested. For those of you in the room with data centers, what’s the conversation like around contracting for energy, power and timing? Solar versus storage or is it and? I’d love to get your intel on what you’re hearing.
- Axios: The energy squeeze behind the Iran war and AI boom
- New York Times: Here’s What It Costs to Keep a Coal Plant Open
- Energy Storage News: Nearly 13GWh of grid-scale BESS deployed globally in April
- Utility Dive: Crux gets $500M debt facility for clean energy investments
- Bloomberg: PE Firm Lightrock Raises $500 Million for New Clean Energy Fund
- Reuters: US set to drop criminal fraud case against India’s Gautam Adani, sources say, as deal reached in civil case
- PV-Tech: MN8 Energy bags US$300 million to extend credit facility
- Solar Power World: Canadian Solar to boost Texas panel factory to 10-GW capacity
- PV-Magazine: NERC inverter-based resource registration initiative enters final stretch for asset owners
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