The energy landscape is evolving quickly. Amid extraordinary levels of AI-focused data center development, power demand across the US is growing at its fastest rate in decades. Today, data center developers are looking to secure not only vast amounts of power, but to do so as quickly as possible.
At the same time, regulators and utilities are increasingly asking data center players to proactively address the grid impacts of their facilities. To remain competitive, hyperscalers and tech companies must meet evolving rules and expectations for bringing their projects online without losing development velocity.
To provide "accredited capacity," ensure power quality, speed time to grid connection, achieve specific delivery profiles, and more, data center players are looking to battery energy storage systems (BESS) as a key part of their business strategies. And, as LevelTen's Q4 2025 US Clean Energy Pipeline report revealed, clean energy development in the US will grow more focused on BESS assets and hybrid projects — which pair BESS with solar and/or wind generation. As the clean power pipeline goes hybrid, the question becomes: how can energy buyers and sellers transact for storage-enabled offerings at the speed and scale necessary?
LevelTen's recent article "Going Hybrid" — an excerpt from LevelTen's Q4 2025 PPA Price Index report — explores how BESS and hybrid assets are playing an important role in powering the AI boom, and presents several contracting approaches that make it easier than ever for corporate buyers to leverage the benefits of storage. Download the article via the form below to learn:
- Why storage and hybrid assets unlock meaningful solutions for addressing data center developers' needs around accredited capacity, speed to grid connection, and more;
- How developers are adjusting their strategies to support the data center boom;
- How corporate buyers can leverage storage and hybrid projects to meet their sustainability goals;
- The emerging contract types that simplify storage's role to help scale up hybrid procurements;
- And much more
Knowledge is power, but executing deals and refining strategies requires real-world data and market intelligence. For years, LevelTen's PPA Price Index has been the industry's leading source of PPA pricing data, produced from hundreds of real PPA price offers in North America and Europe. For the latest PPA pricing intelligence, as well as pricing data for BESS offers, subscribe to LevelTen's PPA Price Index today.
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