Bloomberg / Fortune (Apr 24): largest US data center projects deploying BESS alongside gas gens, taking advantage of battery cost drops. Hybrid stack — gas for capacity, batteries for ride-through and ancillary capture — is becoming default rather than experimental.
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The six-bucket output schema in firm-equivalent-mw-underwrite.md should make BESS pairing explicit (already implicit in 'flexible-curtailable'). Validates the all-BTM scenario page.
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