Featured in Full picture on quality – 04-2022

Back to the future with BESS

Bearing witness during battery energy storage system manufacturing can reveal potential failure points and is crucial given the industry’s relative immaturity, argues Frédéric Dross, the vice-president of strategic development for quality assurance provider STS. And much can be learned from the early days of solar.

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pv magazine

07 Apr 2022

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An STS client and PV industry veteran recently remarked: “It feels like I am back in the PV industry of 2010,” after having been put in charge of the procurement of battery energy storage systems (BESS) for a large European developer. For many in the industry, the level of maturity of the BESS market is …

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