GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Tesla's co-founder is pioneering a circular system for electric vehicle batteries. This week, I've been thinking a lot about electric vehicle batteries and the massive potential for battery recycling and reuse. The industry needs to make the process of EV battery production, use, reuse and recycling much more efficient.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 4, 2021

Getting to 100 percent clean energy presents power grid operators with a major problem: what to do about inertia. Reactive Technologies says its novel technology for measuring this critical aspect of grid stability can help them find answers. and Canada’s Ontario province.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The inverters at an upcoming 300MW/600MWh project in Scotland, UK, will enable the asset to deliver inertia that is “essential for the grid to function efficiently”.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

Japan’s Hitachi has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in ABB Power Grids worth up to $7.8 billion, creating a new business aimed at tackling the renewable and distributed energy frontiers of the power industry. percent stake in the venerable power grids unit of the Swiss-Swedish engineering giant.

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Canary Media

AUGUST 31, 2023

power grids are going to need a lot of batteries — including those that can store power for far longer than the two to four hours that lithium-ion batteries can cost-effectively deliver today. To make the switch to clean energy, U.S. On Thursday, the Department of Energy offered a $398.6

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Hitachi ABB Power Grids, a newly formed joint venture between the two electronics giants, has launched a new “grid-to-plug” EV charging system for public transport and commercial fleet operators. The new solution, called Grid-eMotion Fleet, is designed to enable fleet operators to efficiently scale up their operations.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) – which aims to drive development of the digital tech – has announced a reference library of use cases and case studies, including use of digital twins as a tool to decentralise power grids.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

EIS, a distributor of electrical process materials and components in North America, announced the successful acquisition of Power Grid Supply (PGS), a supplier of transformer parts and components for the production, repair, and remanufacturing of transformers.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Global energy storage platform provider Powin and Pulse Clean Energy, an investor, developer and operator of flexibility and stability assets in the UK, will deploy a 50MW/110MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) on the Scottish project Overhill, located in Aberdeen.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Italy-based EDN , a producer of on-board battery chargers and power converters, will showcase its new on-board battery chargers (BHP19 for the US and BHP22 for Europe) for electric and plug-in hybrid applications in the off-highway sector at construction trade show CONEXPO-CON/AGG in Las Vegas in March. EDN says its 19.2

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Kyon Energy received approval for a 137.5MW/275MWh battery project that will be located near a substation, charging and discharging as per renewable availability to help shave peak demand from Germany’s power grid. The battery storage project will be located in Alfeld (Leine), Lower Saxony, Germany.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The National Science Foundation has awarded $39 million to a team of engineers and computer scientists at the University of California San Diego to build a test bed to better understand how to integrate distributed energy sources and EV batteries into the power grid. “We

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Global Renewable News

APRIL 23, 2024

Summary SRP and NextEra Energy Resources commissioned Sonoran Solar Energy Center, a 260-MW solar plant with a 1 gigawatt-hour battery energy storage system. Both organizations also.

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Canary Media

APRIL 19, 2024

Energy developers are more eager than ever to build new solar, wind, and battery projects in the U.S. tera watts — were making their way through the series of studies and steps required to plug into the power grid, according to… As of December 2023, proposed projects encompassing nearly 2,600 gigawatts (GW) — or 2.6

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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2024

This is according to US-based consultancy Rethink Energy who in a report hail VPP technology as the core of future power grids. They add, however, that most of the time, stationary batteries will play a bigger role on the grid than V2G; EV batteries will only dominate discharging onto the grid during emergencies.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2021

Apart from saying they were building a "metal air" battery, his team held the technology close to the vest. The Interchange is brought to you by Hitachi ABB Power Grids. Looking for a battery energy storage system? Thinking about how to integrate renewables to your grid? Hitachi ABB Power Grids is your choice.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Peaking at nearly 32MW from 8,500 solar-plus-storage residential systems, Sunrun and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) customer batteries provided consistent clean energy to California’s power grid through the summer and fall of 2023.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 18, 2024

Construction has begun on Synergy’s Collie battery energy storage system, which will be one of the biggest grid-scale batteries in Australia when complete. The battery is expected to be completed by the end of 2025. Kwinana Battery Stage Two is under construction and is due to be completed in late 2024.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

bp has entered an agreement with Harmony Energy Income Trust to offer power trading and optimisation services for two battery storage systems, making use of a previously acquired AI-based platform to support the power grid during hours of peak demand.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

British energy developer Balance Power has secured planning approval for a 40MW battery storage project in Cheshire, which will export stored renewable power to the grid when demand is high. After its 40-year lifecycle the project will be decommissioned, and the site will be returned to its former use and condition.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 29, 2024

From interconnection to market structures, US power grid operators are grappling with an onslaught of battery storage development, which has boomed due to the critical need to shore up variable renewable energy. He said the rule is the product of rapid growth and an imperative to adapt to an evolving grid.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 11, 2024

billion) for the development of 60GWh worth of British battery energy storage. In a release, NatPower Group CEO Fabrizio Zago said the announcement marks the largest programme for the development of battery energy storage systems in the UK. million) towards developing substations to help speed up connections to the power grid.

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Charged

AUGUST 21, 2023

Newly launched renewables services company Bullet EV , headquartered in Austin, Texas, has announced its goal of taking on the challenges of EV charger scarcity, a strained power grid and volatile electricity rates. The company plans to expand nationally during 2024. Source: Bullet EV

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Octopus Australia has acquired the Queensland-based Blackstone battery development project with a 1GWh storage capacity, one of Australia’s largest battery systems, connected to the 275kV high voltage transmission network.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

A large-scale battery storage system from Rolls-Royce – touted to be the largest in the Netherlands – is the latest to help the Dutch grid manage its overflow of renewable connections. As a surplus of renewables have been coming online to the Dutch power grid, a new problem has unfolded – that of being at capacity.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 18, 2020

Swedish battery maker Northvolt and state-owned utility Vattenfall launched a new modular and fully mobile energy storage system on Friday, one they say will be able to patch up stressed grids during a period of rapid electrification. The biggest obstacle for those targets is the country’s power grid.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2023

Grid connection bottlenecks, planning issues and high capital expenditure are holding back the roll-out of battery infrastructure in the UK, writes Masdar's Husain Al Meer

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 27, 2023

When those days happen, many people lose the full potential benefit of their residential solar systems , so they only get half of the potential benefit of a solar power system. Why are people only partly benefitting from their residential solar power units? Because they are not storing excess energy with a battery system.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

and Ampt, a company that optimises large-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems, announced the deployment of a combination of wind and solar generation together with battery storage within the microgrid at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT) campus in Pfinztal, Germany.

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Charged

JUNE 3, 2021

Simplified, cost-effective testing of EV batteries and fuel cells with regenerative DC electronic loads and bidirectional DC power supplies that incorporate them.Return up to 96% of the energy absorbed by the DC electronic load, or bidirectional power supply in sink mode, to the power grid.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A new report from Guidehouse Insights explores the benefits of storage as a transmission asset (SATA) in power grid upgrades and provides an update on regulatory changes that are enabling SATA. A summary of the report, Utility-Scale Battery Storage Acting as a Virtual Transmission Asset , is available online. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2022

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have reported demonstrating the underlying concept of quantum batteries. Quantum batteries, like quantum computing based on the behaviour of matter at the sub-atomic level, have the potential to revolutionise current technologies with the prospect of a new compact and powerful energy storage medium.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 3, 2020

” But by the end of the decade, battery storage will be the cheapest option for balancing Europe's grid, overtaking gas peakers, according to a new long-term energy storage outlook. Most of that will come from front-of-the-meter battery systems.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Amid massive wildfires, rolling blackouts and the continued threat of large-scale grid outages, California is shifting more than $100 million of its $1.2 billion Self-Generation Incentive Program budget to help low-income communities install about 100 megawatts of stalled behind-the-meter battery projects.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The New York Power Authority, the country's largest state-owned electric utility, just installed an unusual battery at its headquarters. The 50 kilowatt/250 kilowatt-hour battery isn't remarkable for its size, but for its promise of a design that can eliminate fire risk. Building a fireproof lithium-ion battery.

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Charged

MAY 27, 2021

Aggreko, a provider of mobile and modular energy solutions, has delivered a smart battery storage system to Argonne National Laboratory. “The Aggreko battery energy storage system is useful in our research in that it is flexible, allows for fast deployment, and can be used in many different case studies.”.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

US-based energy storage company Pacific Green Technologies has announced a target of more than 12GWh in battery storage capacity across four global markets for this year. 2024 priorities include progressing the construction of Sheaf Energy Park ahead of its July 2025 commissioning date and further expanding the UK origination portfolio.

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