Speaking Panel Transcript - Batteries and Rooftop Solar
I speak regularly at conferences about a variety of topics related to renewable energy, policy, and analytics. I recently spoke a conference where the entire conversation was memorialized and I've provided the link below. It was a lively discussion and my fellow panelists are captains of industry with a deep understanding of a highly complicated subject. Enjoy!
Battery installations to supplement rooftop solar systems “behind the meter” are a growing market in the United States. They accounted for 20% of the annual US energy storage market in 2016 and are expected to reach 52% by 2022. Such batteries were not considered economic as recently as a couple years ago. What has changed? Where is the growth? Two energy storage leaders who are on the Global Cleantech 100 list for 2017, and a provider of behind-the-meter ice battery storage that has customers in more than 40 US utility service territories, discussed these and other questions at the Infocast Storage Week conference in Oakland, California in late February.
The panelists are Jon Fortune, senior director of product strategy and market development at Sunverge Energy, Mike Hopkins, CEO of Ice Energy, and Ryan Wartena, co-founder of Growing Energy Labs. The moderator is Shellka Arora with Chadbourne in New York.
