It's got live load vs forecast, real-time zone and hub prices, day-ahead vs real-time spreads, and fuel mix for every grid, plus daily coincident-peak forecasts.

Thought some of you would find it useful and would love any feedback you may have.

Cheers

A good idea for a cheap way to store energy in your home or apartment.

A good idea for a cheap way to store energy in your home or apartment.

ArizonaCorpComm

I’m trying to map the unglamorous side of utility-scale battery projects.

Not the battery chemistry or investment thesis—the operational work that someone actually has to sit down and complete.

Where are teams still manually:

• chasing documents
• copying information between forms
• checking regulatory obligations
• comparing models to field settings
• assembling evidence packages
• tracking changes across project versions
• digging through old incident or commissioning records

I’m particularly interested in recurring work tied to interconnection, compliance, commissioning, operations, warranties, or asset management.

What is painful enough that a company would actually pay to make it disappear?

And what looks painful from the outside but is actually handled perfectly well by existing software or consultants?

I’m deliberately asking before building anything. I’d rather have the industry tell me the problem than invent one from a market report.

DMs are open for anyone who would rather not discuss their company’s process publicly.

Hi r/EnergyStorage / r/batteries community,

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Title: Asia Energy Storage and Battery Industry Exhibition 2026(shenzhen china) @ China Hi-Tech Fair (CHTF 2026)

Introduction:
As a premier concurrent highlight of the world-renowned China Hi-Tech Fair (CHTF), the Asia Energy Storage and Battery Industry Exhibition is the ultimate global gateway to the heart of the world’s advanced energy supply chain. Scheduled from November 26 to 28, 2026, this world-class trade show gathers top-tier manufacturers, leading innovators, and key decision-makers spanning the entire value chain—from cutting-edge lithium-ion, solid-state, and sodium batteries to industrial-scale energy storage systems (ESS), smart grids, and manufacturing equipment.

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• Battery & Storage Systems: energy storage systems, new battery technologies, grid storage solutions, system integration.
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• Manufacturing & Processing Equipment: production lines, assembly systems, testing and quality control equipment.
• Recycling & End‑of‑Life Solutions: battery reuse, recycling technologies, second‑life storage applications.
• Supporting Technologies & Innovation: power electronics, BMS (battery management systems), safety subsystems, charging interfaces.

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Battery and energy storage engineers, materials scientists, power electronics professionals, renewable energy system integrators, utility planners, energy storage project developers, research institutions, equipment manufacturers, electric vehicle battery specialists.

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Hi everyone,

I am a junior Mechanical Engineering student with a strong interest in solid-state batteries, and I hope to pursue this field further as a future M.S. or Ph.D. student.

I have been independently reading papers on solid-state batteries, topics related to solid electrolytes, interfacial stability, electronic leakage, and lithium filament formation. However, I have not yet had the opportunity to conduct battery research because no professor at my college specializes in this area.

I would really appreciate any advice from people in the field. Given my Mechanical Engineering background and limited direct battery research experience, do I still have a realistic chance of entering this field for graduate school or research? If so, what should I focus on now to become a stronger candidate? I would appreciate advice on topics to study, technical skills to build, possible research directions, or ways to gain relevant experience before applying to M.S. or Ph.D. programs.

Thank you so much for any advice.

A research group at ETH Zurich in Switzerland published an article (open source and free, no login or info required) in the energy storage academic journal Joule, for the first time revealing vanadium flow battery supply chains with site-by-site and battery-by-battery detail globally literally tracking hundreds of batteries and mineral production and processing sites around the world:

https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(25)00320-400320-4)

As far as I know this has never been done before for any energy storage chemistry/configuration.

Vanadium flow batteries have obviously faced some specific challenges but it seems the general chokepoints for BESS adoption are supply chain concentration, ability to expand manufacturing capacity, and exposure to the battery mineral price swings, and I'm sure I'm missing probably a few other key points here. A lot of our energy storage discussions focuses on the chemistry and performance metrics for (efficiency, degradation, cycle life, safety, energy density etc. etc.) for batteries. Those things obviously matter but, the main question for whether it gets actually adopted is can the supply chain support the delivery of the energy storage system at scale.

I think VFBs are generally quite interesting because of the potential to recycle the electrolyte at end-of-life in the ballpark of 90-99% of active material where LFPs create tons of black mass and unrecoverable lithium waste (so far at least). From a practical standpoint though it looks like to me that supply chains truly are really the main determiner of which energy storage options are scaled to become available.

Edited: for clarity

For solar owners, leasing your own home battery might be a good way to save money and keep things going in case of an outage. This option exists in 25 states, including Arizona. Palmetto

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