Energy in Transition
Solving the energy trilemma
Technical Insights Empower Savvy Bidders for Renewable Energy Projects (Part III)
In this blog series, we have provided insight into the renewable energy market, on topics spanning energy assessments and costs to wind and solar asset life span, in order to better inform investors on their buying decisions. The last blog in our ...
Why Do You Need Energy Storage Monitoring?
Joint Industry Program: IMPRESS In July 2016, DNV GL proudly announced acquisition of Green Power Monitor, which monitors 2300 facilities in over 51 countries, totaling over 14 gigawatts of monitored projects. In the wind and solar business, R ...
Energy Storage Comes of Age
Over the last two months, my colleague Davion Hill, DNV GL's leader for energy storage in the Americas, penned a pair of great pieces detailing the growing pains experienced by the energy storage industry (Read them here: Dear Energy Storage Market: ...
2016 and 2017 Have Broken Size and Cost Records for Energy Storage
As we close out the end of 2017, we can celebrate four consecutive records broken for the largest battery storage projects to ever be commissioned. Here is the timeline: January 2017 - Tesla Aliso Canyon 20 MW/80 MWh January 2017 - Greens ...
10 Factors that Prove Energy Storage is on the Rise
Davion Hill, Energy Storage Leader - Americas, DNV GL On June 19th, I sat on a panel for the ACORE REFF Wall Street Energy Storage Workshop with Richard Baxter of Mustang Prairie, Kris Zaldo of Invenergy, and moderator Rob Gramlich of Grid Strateg ...
Answers to your energy storage questions: Batteries 101
A few weeks ago I presented on an energy storage controls webinar which examined the relationships between principles, practice and project risk; and with 850+ registered attendees, we were bound to get a few questions! After sifting through many of ...
High expectations from energy storage are not hype, and here’s why!
Even as expectations continue to rise for large-scale energy storage to become the "silver bullet" or "game changer" for the energy industry, skeptics persist in challenging that the concept is more hype than reality. The truth is somewhere in betwee ...
Four issues utilities should consider when incorporating distributed solar photovoltaic systems for building more resilient local communities
This author no longer works for DNV GL. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WPO), 2014 was the hottest year on record, with global temperatures 1.03 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the "normal" temperatures averaged over a 30-year s ...