Energy Storage Summit Americas

Why Energy Storage Summit Americas

Following on from the success of the 4th Annual Energy Storage Summit in London, we are delighted to announce the latest Summit in the series: Energy Storage Americas.

The Summit promises to deliver quality, breadth and expertise whilst featuring an all-encompassing range of strategic and technical sessions.

This eco-system event is filled with developers, financiers, utilities, networks, aggregators and C&I energy users all keen to hear about the state of the market, partnership opportunities and the future evolution of energy storage across the region.

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Who Attends

Government representatives

With much policy pushing the market forward from a state and city level, meet budget-holders driving their climate change and resiliency strategies forward and see how they have already approached the market.

Utilities

See which utilities have appetite for storage and how they are developing propositions and pricing strategies for clients.

ISOs/RTOs

See what impact FERC Order 841 has had in their planning for storage projects and understand the different use-cases for batteries.

Investment funds

What is their approach to energy storage, are funds ready to partner and invest or are they still in wait-and-see mode?

Developers of renewables, storage, microgrid and EV carports

Meet qualified and credible developers and EPCs working on new projects. Find out how they have closed deals with different offtakers and investors and hear about their experiences across different markets and understand how to stack revenues and make money from storage.

Debt providers

What will it take for debt and equity providers to find comfort with storage warranties, revenue stacks and understand risk and return? Meet providers with capital ready and find out what their cost of capital will be.

Brokers and Transaction Advisory

Meet senior deal arrangers who can help you to source capital and get deals done.

Key Themes

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News & Blogs

‘First of a kind’ for the US: Utility to co-locate 30MW battery with 300MW wind, 50MW solar

After China connected a huge battery to a project combining solar, wind and other generation sources, a US utility project has just been announced which will likewise combine solar and wind with a grid-scale battery.

‘Breakthrough moment’: Sunrun’s home solar-plus-storage to provide 20MW capacity in New England

Solar-plus-storage systems in ordinary households will provide 20MW of energy capacity in New England, with Sunrun announcing the award of a contract from the state’s ISO (independent system operator).

Schneider Electric to perform microgrid expansion at US Marine Corps station

Schneider Electric will perform an expansion of its microgrid project at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar in order to boost grid resilience at the facility.

California clears another hurdle to energy storage net metering

Regulator approves an industry-led roadmap for solar-plus-storage systems to take advantage of net metering.

Tesla acquires Maxwell Technologies, rival warns of ‘R&D hell’

Tesla will acquire Maxwell Technologies, it was announced this week, although it is not clear yet which of Maxwell’s product lines, including ultracapacitors, are of most interest to the Silicon Valley automaker and new energy company.

ABB accesses SUSI’s €100m Energy Storage Fund following Ability power suite launch

A €100 million (US$114.44 million) fund will be used to develop and deploy microgrid and energy storage projects by engineering and automation firm ABB, which has recently launched a new line of solutions in those areas.

California wildfires, bankruptcy create uncertainty over PG&E’s renewables and storage future

Uncertainty persists around the impact bankruptcy proceedings brought about at investor-owned utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) could have on renewables contracts and energy storage projects as it faces “extensive litigation” and “significant liabilities” for California wildfires.

Warren Buffet’s MidAmerican Energy puts in Iowa’s latest big battery project

The US state of Iowa got its first grid-scale solar-plus-storage system at the beginning of this year, and this has already been followed by the completion of another, larger battery project in the US state this week.

ROUNDUP: MA’s 0% ‘Clean Peak’, Shanghai Gigafactory 3, Flow batteries in Cali wholesale market

News in brief from around the world in the energy storage industry.

Iowa’s first large-scale PV-plus-storage project installed at university, uses flow battery

Iowa’s Maharishi University of Management has completed and powered up a new solar power plant featuring both single-axis tracking and vanadium redox flow battery energy storage.

Proposed solar-plus-storage projects among Hawaii’s lowest cost renewables ever

Following a report on Friday that Hawaiian Electric has contracted PPAs with 75MW of solar projects including battery storage with developer Clearway, the utility has put before regulators proposals for five other grid-scale projects.

Tough Texas market conditions defied as 42MWh battery system comes online

While market opportunities for energy storage in Texas are considered to be limited, the largest battery project in the state so far, a 42MWh system, has just come online.

El Paso Electric elects for 100MW of storage in 370MW capacity push

Electricity from 100MW of energy storage facilities will be purchased by US public utility company El Paso Electric, following a competitive solicitation process.

Nevada utility’s approved 100MW plan is first big step towards 2030 storage goals

While a recent study said 10GW of energy storage by 2030 would offer overall benefit to Nevada, NV Energy will move forward with an Integrated Resource Plan: 1,000MW of renewables including 100MW of storage – by 2021.

Boost for storage as California rubber stamps zero carbon electricity target

California’s Governor Jerry Brown has passed the state’s 2045 zero-carbon electricity target into law, offering a major boost to the energy storage sector in the process.

Swedish wind pioneer Eolus buys 500MW/250MW US solar-plus-storage project

Sweden’s first commercial wind power developer Eolus has entered the US solar-plus-storage market, announcing the acquisition of a mega-project currently in development.

Powin Energy claims it will supply 411MWh systems up to 2021

US-based energy storage technology provider Powin Energy has claimed it has a pipeline close to 500MWh of projects under contract, including recent awards totalling 70MWh for customers in North and Central America and in Italy.

Residential overtakes quarterly utility deployment in US for the first time

The US deployed 42% megawatts more energy storage in the second quarter of this year than in the first, with residential installations overtaking utility deployments for the first time.

California’s energy storage rebate approval a ‘bipartisan victory for local clean energy’

Following news of SB100, legislation that would set California on a path to 100% renewables by 2045, the state is also on the brink of setting up a rebate programme for energy storage equipment sales.

US has gone past 1GWh of installed battery capacity, with help from utilities

US utilities deployed more than 520MWh of energy storage on their networks in 2017, bringing the country’s cumulative installed capacity of grid-connected energy storage systems to over 1GWh, trade organisation Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) has found.

Xcel’s coal-retiring Colorado plan ‘approved’ with 125MW extra battery storage

Utility Xcel Energy’s latest resource plan for Colorado, aimed at increasing renewable energy generation and aiding the retirement of coal plants, was approved by the state’s Public Utilities’ Commission (PUC) on Monday.

California just two legislative steps from enacting ‘100% renewables’ law

Governor of California Jerry Brown, who likened the Trump administration’s environmental stance as a “declaration of war on America”, looks set to commit his state to a “100% renewable energy” policy.

Lockheed Martin earns military stripes with 8.5MWh cost-saving Fort Carson project

A battery energy storage system (BESS) has been selected as a proven and resilient solution to help power a mainland US military facility, saving money on electricity costs and being delivered on a commercial basis.

RES to put down grid-scale PV-plus-storage marker in ERCOT territory

Known historically for its oil and in the present day for deploying large amounts of wind energy and latterly for deploying batteries at wind farms, the US state of Texas is less well known for solar-plus-storage projects.

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