Our view on the latest developments in energy storage.
With all the impressive projects and gigawatt hours of energy storage being deployed in the big markets like the USA, China, and Europe, it’s easy to forget that energy storage is actually a global phenomenon.
Apricum partner Florian Mayr spoke to Energy Storage News about the noticeable lack of energy storage in the recently-leaked RePower EU policy paper that outlines the effort to make the European Union independent from Russian fossil fuel imports. Read the full article...
By Apricum Partner Charles Lesser, Louise Dalton, Partner, Energy & Climate Change, CMS and Rajiv Gogna, Partner, Energy Technology & Analytics, LCP. The British Isles are to utility-scale batteries as the Galapagos Islands are to tortoises: the isolated...
2021 is already the year of the SPAC: they are awash with capital and eyeing the energy transition. With many clients being approached about SPAC mergers, Apricum sets out how they work and whom they suit. The overwhelming number of SPACs are listed in the USA, where...
Looking through the other end of a telescope creates an unfamiliar and remote view, but distance can create valuable perspectives. Here we take an outsider’s perspective on renewables finance, to reveal opportunities for companies seeking to transition to cleaner...
The energy storage market is a landscape of heterogeneous “pockets of opportunities”, understanding this concept is key to success in energy storage.
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....
Fighting global climate change has become an undisputed imperative of our time, and renewable energy and e-mobility are key elements in this battle.
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...
Germany is considered to be a “storage policy laggard” compared to markets like the UK, USA and China, with PCR appearing to be the only market scheme attractive for utility-scale storage in place.
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...
In the final part of this article, Florian Mayr completes his review of Covid-19’s longer-term impact on the third key driver of the energy storage market. He identifies the key mindset and behavioral shifts we expect to see in a post-pandemic world, and outlines how energy storage players can best adapt and respond.