The growth of non-BM battery storage: what’s NIV chasing got to do with it?

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The growth of non-BM battery storage: what’s NIV chasing got to do with it?

Since the Summer of 2022, the number of non-Balancing Mechanism - or ‘non-BM’ - registered battery energy storage units has been increasing. This has ended a long trend of operational batteries switching to the Balancing Mechanism.

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The growth of non-BM battery storage: what’s NIV chasing got to do with it?

The growth of non-BM battery storage: what’s NIV chasing got to do with it?

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