Four of the top ten U.S. residential PV installers now offer energy storage, according to new research from Greentech Media
Solar-plus-storage, a soon-to-be billion-dollar market in the United States, lacks pure-play vendors. Instead, a large swath of the vendor landscape is made up of existing solar companies allied with energy storage firms, balancing each other’s strengths in the marketplace.
“Solar companies have a head start in terms of customer acquisition strategies that energy storage companies can take advantage of through such partnerships,” said Ravi Manghani, GTM Research Senior Energy Storage Analyst, during a presentation at Solar Power International.