Feb 22, 2021
Apricum Partner Frank Beckers was asked recently by Energy-Storage.news to comment on sPower’s announcement that it has closed a deal to finance its standalone lithium-ion battery project in California. Read the full article here ‘Landmark’ financing deal...
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Jan 20, 2021
Looking through the other end of a telescope creates an unfamiliar and remote view, but distance can create valuable perspectives. Here we take an outsider’s perspective on renewables finance, to reveal opportunities for companies seeking to transition to cleaner...
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Dec 13, 2020
Berlin, December 13, 2020 – Apricum, a transaction advisory and strategy consulting firm specialised in renewable energy and cleantech, announces the appointment of Charles Lesser as partner. He will focus on expanding Apricum’s transaction advisory mandates in...
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Dec 11, 2020
The stationary energy storage market is a complex animal. Probably only few other markets are based on a product as versatile and as suitable for a multitude of applications, with equally dynamic costs and pricing developments and the same level of dependence on...
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Dec 8, 2020
Between five and more than 1,000 hours of energy discharge – that’s what the term “long-duration energy storage” encompasses in the industry today. It’s a pretty broad definition that covers a wide array of storage technologies, use cases and companies involved....
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Nov 30, 2020
The future for energy storage is bright. Fighting global climate change has become an undisputed imperative of our time, and renewable energy and e-mobility are key elements in this battle. Energy storage is closely interlinked to both: The first pushing up its...
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Nov 23, 2020
The ‘charging gap’ is widening”, Volkswagen’s head of e-mobility Thomas Ulbrich warned last week as the number of new electric vehicles (EVs) on the streets is increasingly outpacing available charging points. Based on the forecasted 2.5 to 4 million EVs and plug-in...
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Nov 16, 2020
“Batteries are dead in continental Europe”, the CEO of Next Kraftwerke, a Germany-based virtual power plant (VPP) operator, was quoted as saying at a conference earlier this year. At the time, the primary control reserve (PCR) market – still the primary driver for...
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Nov 9, 2020
Apricum Partner Florian Mayr was a guest on the “Leaders in Cleantech” podcast hosted by David Hunt. Tune in to this episode to hear him discuss the latest trends in energy storage demand, competitiveness and frameworks, business models, transactions as...
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