Battery financial models often assume 15+year project lifetimes. In this blog, Fliss Jones interrogates battery degradation risks, and seeks Doctor’s orders on how to protect battery health.
* …at least if you ignore Brexit and Trump and instead consider UK wind speed variability….Rich Whiting reviews the UK wind speed year and asks, how did your assets get on?
“Well, it’s been a weird old year – not only on the world stage, but also when it comes to the wonderful world of renewables and energy storage. Weird and exciting.” Joe Phillips does his best to make sense of it all…
In the race for early mover advantage, there’s a risk that storage developers fail to futureproof their business model, leaving them locked into a single revenue stack. Get your gameplan ready now.
The UK’s Capacity Market Provisional Auction results are out – and 500MW of battery projects have scooped up contracts. Here’s what you need to know.
French Energy and Environment Minister Ségolène Royal appears set to formally kick-off the third tender round with a site off Dunkirk and another off Oléron in the upcoming weeks. A shift in approach – a “grand reboot” – is on the way. We consider this is much needed for this sector.
Some financiers are determined to back storage, regardless of contract length. But there are trade-offs: are we prepared to accept a battery monoculture and higher costs?
No, this is not a reaction to the U.S. election, but rather today’s announcement of the winning bid for the Kriegers Flack offshore wind farm
Technical and commercial energy consultancy, Everoze, has announced the launch of everozeleaf.com – a free online portal which provides new insights on aging renewables and storage assets in the UK and France.
