Our 10 predictions for storage in 2021
BY RICHARD HEAP: Happy new year. This is traditionally a time when we let go of unwanted and unhealthy habits so we can be our best selves. Well, for a bit anyway. It’s with this…
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Why the energy storage industry needs to get over ‘lithium-ion for everything’
By Craig E. Evans, President and CEO, ESS Inc Energy storage had a big year in 2017. We saw it being proposed to power a city the size of Berlin and we saw it being…
Best of 2017: the five stories you have enjoyed the most in the last 12 months
By Jason Deign The energy storage industry just keeps going from strength to strength. In 2017, the sector saw rapid progression to more and bigger projects, faster deployments, cheaper prices and greater market acceptance.
Our most-read stories of 2016
By Jason Deign The year 2016 will probably be remembered as the point at which energy storage began to take off in earnest. Projects came thick and fast as interest in storage extended quickly beyond…
UK energy storage: why a Brexit may be good
By Jason Deign UK renewable energy interests could face significant market disruption if Britons vote to leave the European Union (EU) in a referendum this month. But while sectors such as wind energy fret over…
On to a new Energy Storage Report
Next week Energy Storage Report will be a year old. It has been an eventful 12 months. We have seen and learned a lot, charting the emergence of the first proper energy storage market in Germany, reporting from…
Opinion: a plea for joined-up thinking
This article was previously published in Marine Renewable Energy. It seemed an innocent enough story at the time. We ran an article in which Sven Teske, director of Greenpeace International’s Renewable Energy Campaign, sounded a…
Could Nordics be Europe’s battery pack?
This article was previously published in Marine Renewable Energy. It is a bit like buses: you wait ages for a North Atlantic power interconnector and then two come along at once. At the moment it…