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The article announces the winners of the magazine's 2016 Projects of the Year (POTY) awards held at POWER-GEN International in Florida in December 2016 including the Brunswick County Power Station in Virginia, the Eight Flags Energy CHP Plant and the Village of Minster Energy Storage Project.

The article discusses the value of the utility-scale energy storage in the current generation ecosystem. It highlights several sources of renewable energy such as wind power and solar power. It also stresses the cost-effectiveness of the energy storage solutions which help reduce the cost of electricity in the industrial facilities and houses.

The article focuses on energy storage in an era of renewable resources and explores various energy storage technologies. The topics discussed include the projected growth in worldwide storage capacity and revenue from utility-scale storage batteries from 2014 to 2023, the five main categories of energy storage technologies as of April 2015 that include chemical batteries, compressed air, and pumped storage hydro, and the drivers of and barriers to the growth of the energy storage industry.

The article talks about an energy mandate adapted by California in October 2013 that requires the state's investor-owned electric utilities to buy 1.3. gigawatt of energy storage capacity by the end of 2020. Topics include the role played by the mandate in accelerating the development of battery energy storage technologies, the emergence of lithium ion batteries as the breakout technology in the sector, and companies positioned to take advantage of the emerging market including ABB.