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Brazil is about to hold its first auction dedicated entirely to battery storage, and the number everyone is repeating is the wrong number to focus on. The country’s Ministry of Mines and Energy, through a Capacity Reserve Auction (LRC), is expected to award around 2 GW of battery storage capacity in April 2026. According to […]
The Difference Between an Energy Market Report and a Decision System
Short answer: an energy market report describes what the analyst found. A decision system helps a team decide what to do, why the decision is defensible and what evidence would change it. What does a conventional market report do? A conventional report usually provides market context, forecasts, competitor summaries, policy updates and an analyst conclusion. […]
U.S. Energy Storage Tax Credits: What Developers Need to Verify
Important: U.S. energy storage tax-credit analysis should be treated as a project-level eligibility exercise, not a headline summary. The applicable rule depends on the property, placed-in-service date, construction timeline, entity, sourcing and bonus-credit facts. This article is for research planning, not tax advice. What credit and property definition should you start with? For business-scale projects, […]
How to Analyze Battery Storage Project Pipelines
Short answer: a battery storage project pipeline is useful only when every project has a clear status, source, date and identity. Counting announcements is not the same as measuring executable opportunity. What should a project pipeline show? A pipeline should help a team answer three questions: which projects are real, which projects are moving, and […]
BESS Market Sizing: A Practical Framework for Analysts
Short answer: BESS market sizing is not one number copied from a forecast. It is a transparent estimate built from a defined geography, technology scope, time period, units and set of assumptions. What decision should you start with? Before calculating market size, decide what the estimate is for. A manufacturer may need annual demand by […]
How to Conduct Energy Storage Market Research in 2026
Short answer: energy storage market research is a repeatable process for turning scattered policy, project, company and price sources into a decision that can be checked by another person. What should energy storage market research answer? A useful study starts with a decision, not a keyword. Define whether the team needs to enter a market, […]
The Tax Credit That Wasn’t Cut — and Almost No One Can Claim
When the U.S. passed its major budget bill in July 2025, storage looked like the winner of the clean energy fight. Solar and wind lost their investment and production tax credits on an accelerated timeline, phased out by the end of 2027 unless construction starts before mid-2026. Storage’s own credits weren’t touched by that particular […]