The BESS Deployment Gap: Structural Barriers in Eastern U.S. Markets
The growth of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) across the United States has been characterized by a significant geographic imbalance. While California (CAISO) and Texas (ERCOT) have emerged as leaders in storage integration, with ERCOT alone deploying nearly ten times...
Interconnection Bottlenecks Cost PJM Customers $3.5 Billion
A new analysis commissioned by GridLab and executed by Aurora Energy Research confirms that the failure to interconnect projects in PJM’s interconnection queue is directly imposing billions of dollars in unnecessary costs on ratepayers and tightening the region’s reliability margin.
Acquisition Costs for Existing Gas Power Plants are Rising
GridLab released a report this month in collaboration with Halcyon, an energy analysis software platform, on the rising costs of new gas generation power plants. This analysis found that the cost of new combined cycle gas plants (CCGT) is often...