Turning our satellites to the battery storage market; firm fundamentals with >12 GW starting this year; watching another 40 GW lining up
After slow growth in 2022, battery storage interconnections are finally accelerating. In fact, the U.S. is on track to interconnect more than 7 GW in 2023, almost double 2022.
Publishing a new BESS under construction database
Using our construction data as a guide, almost 70% of projects that come online over the next 18 months will likely be collocated.
Publishing BESS project detail by integrator (FLNC, Sungrow, CSI, Powin etc)
we are anticipating the U.S. large scale BESS installations to grow to ~15-20 GW/year by 2025, up from only ~5 GW that was installed in 2022 and 9 GW total installed in the U.S. today.
Disappointing 2022 (only 5GW installed vs 7-9GW forecast)… but project pipeline surges again
Disappointing near term installations (driven by supply chain / equipment / labor shortages), with only 5 GW installed in 2022 compared our original forecast of 7-9 GW.
Takeaways From RE+ Anaheim Conference
As an alternative to anecdotes, imperfect surveys, and guesswork, we have created a tool called Lium solarSAT™ to better inform the market with real-time solar satellite monitoring. With this product, investors and corporate management can monitor the status of all U.S. large scale solar projects, including the day each project broke ground (firstDIRT™), timing of panel deliveries, and final completions. In this report, see findings as we update our data for August satellite imagery.
2022 Market share shifts (supplier CATL up again); BESS forecasts UNCHANGED following IRA ; FLNC estimates too high
While costs, solar panel constraints, and stalled policy has been a headwind, deployments of battery storage facilities (BESS) have been surprisingly strong. In fact, a record 1.6 GW of BESS has been connected to the grid in just the last 3-months. This is contrary to the…
BESS deployments hit record in Q2 (1.6 GW); Standalone doesn’t get enough credit; FLNC market share
While costs, solar panel constraints, and stalled policy has been a headwind, deployments of battery storage facilities (BESS) have been surprisingly strong. In fact, a record 1.6 GW of BESS has been connected to the grid in just the last 3-months. This is contrary to the…
Takeaways From Reuters Renewable Finance Dallas Conference
Following two days of immersive discussion at Reuters Renewables Finance & Investment conference in Dallas (where Lium Research was invited to emcee the event and 450 market participants were present), several key themes surfaced and are summarized below.
May power data huge for solar; Elec prices surging; Offshore wind pipeline up +33%; Panel import data out next week
Eight Data Trends To Watch Through Earnings Season…
BESS Delay Risk, CleanPower Conf Takeaways, Satellite Intel, New Battery Model Download, & more… [storage hits]
EXCERPT: At the CleanPower conference in San Antonio this week, a key theme was: delays, delays, delays. Unsurprisingly, this was a common refrain among integrators, developers, EPC and assemblers at the conference. Although we did hear a couple anecdotes of easing port congestion, diesel shortages and pricing has become more acute…