Florian Mayr, Author on Apricum - The Cleantech Advisory

The pockets of energy storage opportunity

Dec 11, 2020

The stationary energy storage market is a complex animal. Probably only few other markets are based on a product as versatile and as suitable for a multitude of applications, with equally dynamic costs and pricing developments and the same level of dependence on... read more

Beneficial in the long run – challenges and opportunities for “longer-duration storage”

Dec 8, 2020

Between five and more than 1,000 hours of energy discharge – that’s what the term “long-duration energy storage” encompasses in the industry today. It’s a pretty broad definition that covers a wide array of storage technologies, use cases and companies involved.... read more

The horsepower driving the “decade of energy storage”

Nov 30, 2020

The future for energy storage is bright. Fighting global climate change has become an undisputed imperative of our time, and renewable energy and e-mobility are key elements in this battle. Energy storage is closely interlinked to both: The first pushing up its... read more

Buffered charging – how batteries can close the widening “charging gap”

Nov 23, 2020

The ‘charging gap’ is widening”, Volkswagen’s head of e-mobility Thomas Ulbrich warned last week as the number of new electric vehicles (EVs) on the streets is increasingly outpacing available charging points. Based on the forecasted 2.5 to 4 million EVs and plug-in... read more

What’s in it for large-scale energy storage in Germany (beyond control reserve)?

Nov 16, 2020

“Batteries are dead in continental Europe”, the CEO of Next Kraftwerke, a Germany-based virtual power plant (VPP) operator, was quoted as saying at a conference earlier this year. At the time, the primary control reserve (PCR) market – still the primary driver for... read more

Clouds, communities and virtual batteries: A look behind the curtain

Oct 30, 2020

Tesla’s plan to offer its own electricity tariffs moved forward in the UK at the end of October with the introduction of its “Tesla Energy Plan”. Participating homeowners with an installed solar system and a Powerwall storage unit are promised the lowest flat rate for... read more

Energy storage in a post-pandemic world: Taking stock and preparing for future success – Part Two

Jul 16, 2020

Welcome to part two of our article on assessing the longer-term effects of Covid-19 on the energy storage sector and the way forward (read part one here if you have not already). We last left off with a discussion on the implications of the pandemic on the three key... read more

Energy storage in a post-pandemic world: Taking stock and preparing for future success – Part One

Jul 7, 2020

At the time of writing this article, the Covid-19 pandemic still had a firm grip on the world with no reliable and widespread cure within reach. And while there will be a day when this crisis is resolved, its impact on global economies and industries will likely still... read more

Storage at 20 USD/MWh? Breaking down the low-cost solar-plus-storage PPAs in the USA

Mar 25, 2020

In this article, we offer yet another example of the competitiveness of energy storage and new market opportunities that are emerging via storage-plus-renewables projects by examining with some simple “reverse engineering” how recent low solar-plus-storage PPAs in the... read more

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