Analysis of the trends shaping solar and storage: market data, policy and compliance, and where the industry is heading next.
Ask three vendors what a battery energy storage system costs and you will get three numbers, all of them incomplete. Not because anyone is lying, but because the number they quote is the price of the...
WATTMORE is the mission critical operations solution for facilities that cannot blink: certified hardware and certified software, delivered end to end by one company. EMS, PPC, SCADA, DAS, metering, recloser and transformer monitoring, weather integration, and microgrids, with the certifications and proof points behind them.
FEOC compliance has quickly become one of the most important procurement requirements in the American solar and energy storage industry. If you are developing, financing, or operating a solar or batte...
Intellect PLAN, WATTMORE's financial planning and system sizing platform at wattmoreplan.com, now includes a full front of the meter (FTM) solar and storage sizing tool for ERCOT. Developers and asset...
WATTMORE is proud to announce that our patented Intellect Operate Battery Energy Management System (EMS) has successfully passed functional and safety testing with top tier hardware partner Yaskawa So...
Solar panels and batteries are going up everywhere;on homes, businesses, and industrial sites at record pace. But here is the uncomfortable truth: most of those batteries are dumb. They sit on the wal...
Intellect PLAN now ships with two new application types built specifically for the Northeast: Connecticut Storage Sizing and Massachusetts Storage Sizing. With these additions, PLAN covers eight purpo...
At an industrial fabrication facility in Thorold, Ontario, a 150 kW / 444 kWh battery is quietly rewriting the monthly power bill. E.S. Fox Limited’s behind-the-meter storage system, c...
Every energy project needs a data acquisition system (DAS). Every energy portfolio needs a standardized one. DAS and monitoring are not line items you select on a project by project basis; they are in...
If you operate battery energy storage in Texas, four fifteen-minute windows each summer determine a significant share of your annual transmission costs. These are the ERCOT 4CP intervals, the four coi...
The energy landscape shifted permanently in 2025. According to the new U.S. Energy Storage Market Outlook from SEIA and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, the U.S. storage industry didn’t just grow, it e...
If you are developing, financing, or operating a battery energy storage system, you have almost certainly encountered two terms that cause persistent confusion: energy management system and power plan...
A 10 site energy portfolio with 10 different monitoring platforms is not a portfolio. It is a collection of disconnected projects with no unified operational intelligence. The moment you deploy your s...
WATTMORE is an energy management system (EMS) and data acquisition system (DAS) company. That is what we do. We do not sell batteries. We do not install solar panels. We do not build substations. We b...
Every grid connected energy storage and solar facility needs a power plant controller (PPC). It is not optional. Your interconnection agreement requires it. Your utility demands it. And if your PPC fa...
Battery storage has moved from niche to grid infrastructure, and the next phase is taking shape: pack prices falling, durations stretching, AI running operations, fleets aggregating into virtual power plants, and software becoming the differentiator between identical batteries. Here are the trends with the numbers behind them.
No single value stream usually justifies a battery on its own; stacked together, the same asset can pay. This guide explains the main revenue streams for battery storage, why they compete for the same energy, how a storage EMS jointly optimizes them, and how market rules like FERC Order 2222 keep widening the menu.
A credible financial model is what turns a battery project into a financeable investment. This guide explains ROI, NPV, IRR, and payback for energy storage, the revenue and cost inputs that belong in the model, the pitfalls that quietly inflate projections, and why models built on real dispatch algorithms hold up.
An undersized battery leaves revenue on the table; an oversized one wastes capital. This step by step guide covers the data you need, how the tariff and use case drive the power and energy ratings, how to model the economics honestly, and why sizing with real dispatch algorithms beats simplified models.
Effective monitoring is the difference between a portfolio that performs and one that silently loses energy year after year. These eight practices, from data granularity and irradiance based verification to tiered alarming and degradation tracking, are how experienced solar operators keep plants honest.
Demand charges are set by a single fifteen minute peak each month, which makes them a natural target for a fast battery. This guide explains how peak shaving with battery storage works, what drives the savings, why forecasting decides success, and what the results look like on a live industrial site.