US scientists explore how to compensate battery owners for grid value

Written on behalf by Madeline Acri, National Energy Storage Specialist at Soligent

Distributed batteries “offer utilities an under-utilized, flexible resource,” says a report from the United States Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Batteries that customers purchase for use during power outages, and batteries used to increase solar self-consumption, could both provide grid services at other times, the report says.To read more about how to capture the value of batteries, policymakers and utilities can “improve distributed battery storage economics,” read more at PV Magazine here.