Where the Real Value of Battery Storage Comes From
I want to talk about batteries today. We're getting a lot of activity around batteries, a lot of inquiries, including inquiries from those of you who sell batteries.
I want to talk about batteries today. We're getting a lot of activity around batteries, a lot of inquiries, including inquiries from those of you who sell batteries.
When we were creating Distributed Energy Clearinghouse, we built that platform kind of module by module. One of the modules we created was something that would really get a tight estimate of capacity charges.
According to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, at the end of 2025, more than 2,000 gigawatts of proposed generation and storage were actively seeking connections to the grid.
Distributed energy opportunities are relatively easy to identify. The harder part is determining which ones are strong enough to justify deeper engineering, development, financing, and capital allocation.
Battery energy storage creates value through much more than energy arbitrage. Learn the four primary drivers of battery ROI, including utility bill savings, grid services, incentives, and resilience, and why coordinating these value streams is essential to maximizing project economics.
Distributed Energy Clearinghouse was recently featured in PV Magazine USA with an article by Richard Zdunkewicz titled, “The Real ROI of Distributed Energy Lies Beyond the Spreadsheet.” The article looks…
Reliability generators are becoming an increasingly attractive investment in ERCOT.
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Texas recently funded a new program to keep hospitals, water systems, and other critical facilities running when the power goes out.