Closing the Gap between Expected & Actual Revenue

Synopsis

• How Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) developers are building sustainable, bankable revenue models that can attract institutional capital and support large-scale deployment across evolving electricity markets
• What revenue characteristics (duration, counterparty quality, payment certainty) make BESS projects financeable at attractive debt costs?
• How capacity payments combined with energy and ancillary revenues create the revenue floor needed for project underwriting and construction financing
• How discrepancies between modeled IRRs and realized merchant or capacity revenues are influencing financing terms, performance guarantees, and lender confidence in storage projects