What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | Grid connection queues (ISO/TSO/DNO registers), planning authorities, generation licence registers, EIA/Ofgem/national energy regulators… | Per project/site: capacity MW/MWh, technology, connection date, planning status | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistics offices, industry associations (EASE, ACP, ESA), recruitment data vendors | Sector or regional aggregates; per-project construction/O&M headcount estimates | public |
| financial filings | Listed storage developers/IPPs and yieldcos, storage funds (Gresham House Energy Storage, Gore Street), company registries | Per entity, quarterly/annual; portfolio-level revenue per MW | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Fire services and safety authorities, EPRI BESS Failure Incident Database, insurers/loss adjusters, national safety regulators | Per incident: site, date, cause, technology, damage | public |
| production output | Battery storage operators, transmission/distribution system operators, national grid operators (e.g. National Grid ESO, ENTSO-E members)… | Per-unit (BESS/pumped-hydro asset) charge and discharge MW at 5–60 minute… | public |
| pricing | Power exchanges (EPEX SPOT, Nord Pool, EEX), ISOs/RTOs (PJM, CAISO, ERCOT), ancillary-service/capacity auction operators, data vendors… | Per settlement period per bidding zone; per auction for frequency response… | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Battery cell manufacturers (CATL, BYD, Samsung SDI), system integrators, procurement/price-index vendors (Benchmark Mineral Intelligence… | Per order/contract; monthly cell and turnkey system $/kWh price indices… | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | Planning portals, grid operators' connection registers, commercial project databases (Wood Mackenzie, S&P Global, Solar Media/Modo asset… | Per site coordinates, substation/grid supply point linkage | purchasable |
| weather-dependent metrics | Meteorological services, forecasting vendors (DTN, Vaisala), traders/optimisers combining weather with price spreads | Hourly per zone: temperature (affecting cooling load and price spreads)… | purchasable |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Grid operators and market data vendors, storage optimisers, capacity market delivery bodies | Per asset per day: cycles per day, utilisation %, availability by market (FFR… | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Market/balancing settlement bodies (Elexon, ISO settlement systems), storage asset owners, route-to-market optimisers/aggregators (Habitat… | Per bid/offer and per accepted trade per unit per settlement period | partnership |
| energy consumption | Storage operators, metering agents, TSO/DSO settlement systems | Per site half-hourly import (charging, auxiliary/HVAC load), round-trip… | partnership |
| waste & emissions | Battery recyclers (Redwood, Li-Cycle), extended-producer-responsibility registries under EU Battery Regulation, environmental agencies | Per shipment/tonnage of decommissioned batteries; per-asset embodied carbon and… | partnership |
| maintenance & asset condition | Asset owners/IPPs, O&M contractors, warranty providers, technical due-diligence firms (DNV, Clean Energy Associates) | Per asset: state-of-health/capacity-fade tests, availability, work orders per… | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Certification bodies (UL, TÜV, DEKRA), grid-code compliance testers, TSOs holding prequalification test results | Per unit/product: UL9540A test reports, grid code compliance and ancillary… | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | BESS operators, EMS/SCADA vendors (Tesla, Fluence, Wärtsilä, Sungrow), OEM battery cell suppliers via BMS telemetry | Per rack/module: voltage, current, cell temperature, SoC at seconds-to-minute… | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.