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US battery storage financing has become more challenging

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BESS project owners are therefore increasingly pursuing five-to-seven-year contracted revenue deals to get initial project financing before transitioning to merchant operations after that period.

“I think where a lot of the market is moving right now is to get short-term contracts for BESS,” Maheshwari noted.

“We’re seeing a lot of pressure at this point on the PV assets, to basically take the load of the storage assets on the financing,” Maheshwari added.

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PV Tech publisher Solar Media is hosting 12th edition of the Solar & Storage Finance USA event on 21-22 October 2025 in New York (yesterday and today). Panellists will discuss the fate of US solar and storage in a post-subsidy world, the evolving economics of standalone BESS and de-risking solar and storage supply chains. All are encouraged to respond to an anonymous survey on the US solar and storage sector, that will shape discussions at the summit.

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