Nikolaos Nikolaidis
Nikolaos Nikolaidis
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Vice President, Finance

Innergex

Canada

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Catalysing transition: Battery storage in focus

Diego Rausei
CFO LATAM,
Zelestra Energy
Nikolaos Nikolaidis
Vice President, Finance,
Innergex

If we are truly committed to the energy transition, then we need to significantly improve battery storage deployment across the region. This session considers why this important, and how we can finance more projects in the space: -Will battery storage help to solve grid management issues?

  • To what extent is technology risk preventing investment in the sector?
  • Examining emerging business models around battery storage: merchant vs capacity payments
  • Are local, regional, and international banks familiar enough with batteries in a Latin American context?
  • Given recent successes in Chile with battery storage as a mitigation tool for transmission woes, what other regions offer the best opportunity to implement these strategies?
  • Understanding battery storage project asset lifecycles, evaluating repowering costs