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The rapid rise of battery storage

Battery energy storage system (BESS) technology has come a long way since 2012. Kai-Philipp Kairies, CEO and co-founder of Accure Battery Intelligence, reflects on the fast-paced evolution of BESS and asks what will come next for an industry with plenty of stored potential.

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pv magazine

10 Jun 2024

BESS projects such as this 20 MW/100 MWh system in South Africa show how far battery storage has come since 2013, when just 1 MW could make headlines. | Photo: Eskom

I was first introduced to the rather outlandish idea of using lithium-ion batteries as grid assets by one of the industry’s brightest minds: Dirk Uwe Sauer. In 2012, Dr Sauer offered me a job at his new stationary storage research group. At the time, I was working on electrifying bus fleets and had never even …

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