Big or small? Centralized or distributed? The answer, at least for energy storage, may be both, but what that future may be is unclear, if early discussions at the Energy Storage North America (ESNA) conference in San Diego October 4–6 are anything to go by.
Speaking on the first night’s opening keynote panel, Colin Cushnie, vice president of energy procurement and management for Southern California Edison (SCE), spent some time discussing the utility’s big dive into energy storage in 2014 when it signed contracts for 260 MW of capacity.