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.
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.
Reliability generators are becoming an increasingly attractive investment in ERCOT.
Over the past several decades, electric demand growth was relatively modest, gradual, and broadly distributed across customer classes Electricity demand in the United States has entered a new reality.
Water infrastructure in the U.S. was built on a simple assumption: that grid power would always be available and that running costs would remain manageable.
Clean energy projects do not stall because of technology. Solar projects involving solar panels have proven to be just as efficient; battery storage is commercially available; and microgrids are being installed at pilot scale in every major U.S. industrial sector.
U.S. commercial electricity rates have increased year over year for more than a decade, and the EIA forecasts show that won’t change. For businesses operating energy-intensive facilities, that isn’t a future issue, but rather one you have to deal with now.
Demand is climbing, extreme weather is arriving with less warning than before, and millions of homes now generate and store their own electricity in ways utilities never planned for.
