It’s crucial for utilities to get accurate information about energy storage technology and the complex dynamics at work in the battery market. In the current market, supply-chain issues, material shortages, and manufacturing limitations cause uncertainty. And demand for batteries is skyrocketing.
But how can utilities accurately plan resources in this tumultuous market without appropriate market intelligence? You can’t risk making assumptions in your forecasts. Predictions need to be grounded in data so you can effectively prepare for what’s ahead.
To keep up with the ever-changing energy storage market, our clients tap into our:
- Best-practice advice
- Market research
- First-principles, bottom-up research
- Predictive data science
- Global battery and utility sector experts
Battery storage intelligence
Whether you’re tracking the battery market for long-term forecasts, designing programs for utility customers or offerings for mobility and (EVs), finding the right customers for your battery programs, or procuring batteries for grid-scale solutions, E Source can help.
Tracking the battery market
Rely on our market intelligence and world-renowned expertise to understand the battery market and supply-chain issues, incorporate battery pricing into long-term resource forecasts, negotiate energy storage contracts, and compare pricing to ensure a return on your battery investments.
Resources to help you track the battery market
Navigating the unknowns of the battery market through forecasting
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Podcast Episode 5: All about batteries
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The new batterification macrotrend and our battery market forecast
How utilities are structuring effective incentives for battery storage
Webinar: Battery market forecast to 2030
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Designing a battery incentive that benefits customers, utilities, and the rate base
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Boosting bargaining power through granular battery market forecasting
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Battery market forecast to 2030: Pricing, capacity, and supply and demand
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Solutions for tracking the battery market
Research and advisory
E Source Battery Next is a data-focused solution for tracking the battery market and anticipating where it will go next.
Battery Next brings together 200,000 data points and first-principles research and analysis. We deliver the only reliable information on which you can base your assumptions. Our approach ensures our market forecasts are realistic projections of the future, grounded in fact.
Consulting
Our experts will help you study the market, develop roadmaps, launch new products, and understand the competitive landscape. With our guidance, you can build a solid go-to-market strategy based on strong, clean data.
Designing for a distributed grid
Whether you’re designing programs for utility customers, offerings for mobility and EVs, or grid-scale solutions, our insights, data, and expertise can mitigate risk in your forecasts by ensuring your assumptions are grounded in quality data.
Resources to help you design for a distributed grid
Building your EV charger asset management plan
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How can utilities navigate the imminent battery wave?
Designing a battery incentive that benefits customers, utilities, and the rate base
Read moreStrategies for EV charging resiliency during natural disasters
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Mopping up the solar spill: Using optimized managed charging to absorb excess solar generation
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Realizing resilience: New perspectives on delivering value to utilities and utility customers
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Which customers have Level 2 EV chargers and what programs should you offer them?
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EV charging and pricing: What are consumers willing to pay?
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Members of certain E Source services can access these additional resources:
- A catalog of battery storage pilots and programs
- Choosing the right managed EV charging strategy for business customers
- Capture the benefits of commercial battery storage
- Customers like batteries, but they don’t understand them
- How are utilities getting residential customers on board with battery storage?
Designing utility customer programs
When designing your customer-sited battery storage programs and determining your overall strategy, save time and avoid missteps by putting other utilities’ successes and lessons learned into action.
Research and advisory
The E Source Distributed Energy Resource Strategy Service demonstrates how your peer utilities are designing pilots and programs for backup power.
The E Source Technology Assessment Service delivers unbiased advice on how to incorporate the latest battery technologies into your utility programs.
E Source Battery Next can accelerate the development of your customer battery programs so that you can provide the energy storage solutions your customers need, cost-effectively and optimized for your goals.
Consulting
Work with our consulting team to understand your customers’ needs and motivations and to map their energy storage journeys. Our experts will conduct ethnographic research and guide your team through human-centered design-thinking exercises so you can develop tailored offerings for your customers.
Designing EV programs
Ensure that your electric distribution grid can meet your customers’ transportation fuel needs. Use our research and data services to learn when and where you’ll need to upgrade your grid.
Research and advisory
The E Source Technology Assessment Service shows you how to use EV batteries to balance out intermittency and implement managed EV charging technology to control the power draw from electric cars and fleets.
Data science
E Source OneInform predicts which parts of your service territory will be most densely populated by EV and battery customers.
Designing grid-scale solutions
Predict where batteries should go based on where your utility grid is most vulnerable. Use data science to identify potential points of failure and match intermittent resources with battery storage. Confidently negotiate long-term energy supply contracts to ensure ROI.
Data science
E Source GridInform applies data science to help you plan battery distribution, map your grid, prevent downtime, improve resiliency, and reduce operations and maintenance costs.
Research and advisory
E Source Battery Next provides you with the data and expertise you need to stay ahead of market pricing and supply and demand trends. You’ll better understand how to match load on the grid and keep up with the rising demand for batteries and renewables. Use the data to ensure a return on your long-term energy storage contracts or purchases.
Reaching the right customers for battery technologies
Treat your customers as an audience of one by marketing your behind-the-meter battery storage incentive programs to those who are most likely to benefit from them.
Resources to help you reach the right customers
Members of the E Source Distributed Energy Resource Strategy Service can also access:
- Optimizing residential battery storage programs
- Exchange: Designing the best customer-sited battery storage programs for your customers and the grid
- Customers like batteries, but they don’t understand them
- Battery storage exchange: Adjusting your distributed storage strategy
- How are utilities getting residential customers on board with battery storage?
Solutions to make sure you reach the right customers with the right offers
Research and advisory
The E Source Distributed Energy Resource Strategy Service can help you position your programs and determine your messaging based on proprietary voice-of-the-customer market research.
Data science
Use predictive data science through E Source OneInform to narrow your audience and focus your outreach on customers who are interested in battery storage programs. This strategy increases program cost-effectiveness.
Consulting
Our consulting team will layer in custom ethnographic research to help you understand the needs and motivations of customers likely to participate in energy storage offerings so you can tailor solutions to them.
Meet our experts
Sam Jaffe
Electric vehicle (EV) programs, Electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), Hybrid vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs)
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Bryan Jungers
Electrification, Renewable energy, Emerging technology programs, Electric vehicles (EVs)
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Amy Schmidt
Underserved customers, Planning, Demand-side management (DSM), Demand-response (DR) programs, Load shifting
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Luke Beckett
Decarbonization, Distributed energy resources (DERs), Demand-side management (DSM), End-use and emerging technology topics
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Steven Day
Electric vehicle (EV) programs, Electrification, Electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), Hybrid vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs)
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