09
Dec
2024

‘The urgent need for power drives demand for energy storage’: Dax Kepshire, Energy Operating Partners

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Dax Kepshire is a founder of Energy Operating Partners, an energy storage advisory firm, and has been working in the energy storage sector for the past 18 years. After earning a PhD in engineering sciences, he founded SustainX in 2007, one of the first grid-scale energy storage startups in the US. In 2015, he joined AES Energy Storage, a unit of US utility AES Corporation, where he built technical sales globally.

After the merger with Siemens Energy Storage that formed Fluence Energy, he held various senior leadership positions and ultimately became its COO for the Americas region. In this interview with Gas Matters, Kepshire discusses his expectations for battery cost declines and explains why he believes US energy storage will see a 100% compound annual growth rate until 2026.

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