2018 was the year of residential energy storage, according to a leading analyst, as well as the year that grid-level batteries broke out of early adopter states and began appearing in places that might once have seemed unlikely.
Share to twitterA worker unpacks solar panels at the Connexus Energy Athens Township solar-plus-storage project site in Athens Township, Minnesota, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. Connexus Energy Athens Township project integrates large scale battery storage with a solar array to manage peak demand and is the first commercial-battery deployment in Minnesota.
"This isn’t just a Starbucks in California talking about energy storage," Finn-Foley said Thursday."We have Alabama, this past quarter Georgia, the Carolinas talking about energy storage. This tells you this is about cost. This is not an emotional decision. This is now about finding the least-cost solution, as a utility, to customers. And that’s a big deal.
members Thursday, telling them that the fourth quarter of 2018 broke energy-storage records everywhere. While residential storage may still be driven more by emotion than economics, grid-level storage is reaching the magic point where the cost curve crosses the value line.
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