Jon is the Manager of Product Strategy and Market Development at Fluence, a global market leader in energy storage products and services, and digital applications for renewables and storage.
That’s where we see most of the growth, most of the megawatts. Utilities directly owning projects are becoming more scarce and we see this as a trend that will continue. We are very bullish on this. We use the acronym VTL: virtual transmission line. You might see this also called storage as a transmission asset. In our view, this is a major growth opportunity for utilities to deploy capital and increase their resilience.
As battery costs fall, the flexibility of battery energy storage is making it useful and cost-effective in a wider variety of applications.