Featured in Electric avenues – 09-2017

Out of the blocks, on to the track

Storage growth: For so long, energy storage has revved impatiently at the traffic lights, promising rapid acceleration but achieving only steady deployment speeds. But will a series of high profile acquisitions and movements within the sector yield the convergence of cash and confidence required to expedite the widespread adoption and cost reduction necessary to take storage into the fast lane?

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Ian Clover

05 Sep 2017

The entrance of Mercedes Benz into the stationary storage market could expedite a chain reaction of uptake, deployment, and rapid cost reduction of battery technologies, in turn boosting the solar market.

Commands often come in three stages: On your mark, get set, go; ready, aim, fire; and lights, camera, action. These are well-worn three-step rituals, designed to give competitors and performers appropriate time to prepare.Trace the growth of the energy storage market the past few years and one might conclude that the industry has been stuck …

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