Forbes (Commentary): Court Ruling Clears Way For Energy Storage On The Grid. Who Benefits?

Aug. 2 — A federal appeals court has cleared the way for large-scale energy storage projects to have similar access to the power grid as electric generators do. The July decision is a big win for independent, merchant battery companies and renewable energy proponents, and a blow to entrenched legacy generators that have worked to stall independent battery stations by complaining that these are not generation facilities and cannot perform the same way as a legacy generation station on the grid. In particular, they were concerned that their own electricity would be used against them—bought low and sold high the next day while depressing prices. The legacy plants would lose both ways! But that’s nonsense.

— Forbes