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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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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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“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...
read moreApricum 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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Tesla’s plan to offer its own electricity tariffs moved forward in the UK at the end of October with the introduction of its “Tesla Energy Plan”. Participating homeowners with an installed solar system and a Powerwall storage unit are promised the lowest flat rate for...
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Welcome to part two of our article on assessing the longer-term effects of Covid-19 on the energy storage sector and the way forward (read part one here if you have not already). We last left off with a discussion on the implications of the pandemic on the three key...
read moreNot only has Florian Mayr, Apricum partner and head of energy storage, written about the longer-term effects of Covid-19 on the energy storage market here, he has also discussed it in an interview for ees Europe for their latest episode of the smarter E podcast....
read more At the time of writing this article, the Covid-19 pandemic still had a firm grip on the world with no reliable and widespread cure within reach. And while there will be a day when this crisis is resolved, its impact on global economies and industries will likely still...
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In this article, we offer yet another example of the competitiveness of energy storage and new market opportunities that are emerging via storage-plus-renewables projects by examining with some simple “reverse engineering” how recent low solar-plus-storage PPAs in the...
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