GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

Fueled by improved economics, increased demand for resilience, and the ever-increasing integration of intermittent renewable generation, energy storage installations hit an all-time high of 522 megawatts/1,113 megawatt-hours last year. By any measure, 2019 was a breakout year for energy storage in the U.S. Deconstruction leads to innovation.

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Charged

MARCH 14, 2024

The brand’s most recognizable EV, the i3 , went on sale in 2014, and was produced until 2022. In Jack Ewing’s view, this strategy “bought the company time to develop expertise in battery technology and to…cope with fluctuations in demand, because it can more easily dial up or down production of different types of cars.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Customers will be given the freedom to use their appliances and adjust their consumption patterns to benefit from cheaper renewable energy on the grid when it is abundant, while grid operators will be able to better balance supply and demand without disruption to end consumers. re.alto was founded in 2019 by Elia Group.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Sure, small-scale batteries in homes and businesses can link up and deliver veritable megawatts of capacity. ” So who’s got the biggest battery? ” So who’s got the biggest battery? Even the biggest batteries on the books can’t last long enough to fully replace fossil fueled capacity.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

The largest behind-the-meter battery title previously went to Convergent Energy + Power for 10-megawatt systems to help industrial companies dodge demand charges in Ontario, Canada. ” Data centers have a generally flat demand profile, which influenced the choice to add a battery to the solar facility.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2021

” Then, they compare the climate tech world of today to 2014, a low point in the space when the Prime Coalition was started, examining some of the biggest changes: The influx of generalist investors. The explosion of corporate commitments, reflecting the growing demand for climate action from consumers, investors and the general public.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

homes and commercial buildings consume roughly two-fifths of the country’s overall energy, three-fourths of all electricity, and account for most of the peak electricity demand that drives generation and power grid infrastructure costs. Shifting heating from fossil fuels to electricity can cut direct emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2020

Companies selling batteries of any sort to businesses grapple with the fact that the devices are expensive, take up valuable space and tend to require a painful and lengthy sales cycle. Those downsides can get in the way of the appeal, which is to save companies loads of money on their electricity bills by dodging peaks and demand charges.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Clean energy facilities including battery storage, demand side response and pumped hydro storage are among those tapped to provide back up power to the UK grid next winter, as the government awarded around £380m-worth of contracts in the latest capacity market auction yesterday.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The rapid growth of renewables is key to unlocking a secure and affordable energy transition, but while we have seen investment in renewables nearly double since 2014, for grid modernisation it has barely changed , writes Matthew Boulton, Director of Solar, Storage and Private Wire at EDF Renewables UK.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

natural gas supply network was stressed by record demand and prices. Without their generation during this latest extreme cold event (and the 2014 and 2018 and 2019 polar vortex events), the gas network could have been greatly exceeded. That requirement only goes up if there is a rapid increase in electric vehicle charging demand.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 8, 2021

In 2014, NuScale Power , which looks likely to become the first Western SMR developer to commercialize a reactor, published a paper on the use of its SMRs for oil recovery and refining applications. One example would be covering seasonal rather than daily mismatches between electricity demand and renewables production.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In 2014, EMEA, dominated by Europe, represented 44 percent of global energy storage deployment. solar developments in recent years, driven by favorable federal tax credit treatment for solar-linked batteries and by the need for storage to shift solar output to times when it's more valuable for the grid.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Schaeffer said he laid them out in the parking lot and verified that they could charge batteries. Local, off-grid cannibis growers provided crucial early demand. After leaving the company, he bought back the Solar Living Center in 2014, and focused his efforts on leading the board of the nonprofit Solar Living Institute that runs it.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 28, 2022

First copper foil production plant in Europe to boost EV battery innovation Shell converts London petrol station into EV charging hub GM repurposes vehicle hydrogen tech for power supply. Have you read? The facility will produce the company’s first electric bus designed specifically for the European market.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Instead, the greatest expansion in energy storage over the last decade has been in batteries. There has also been growth in the number of energy storage projects outside of lithium-ion batteries, such as compressed air energy storage and flywheel storage. The reverse is true if one focuses on generation and not distribution.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China has also contributed to price declines in wind turbines and lithium-ion batteries. In the period between 2014 and 2016 China canceled many coal plants and installed scrubbers on 80 percent of existing plants to reduce sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide and other hazardous emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The joint venture between AES and Siemens already provides software to its battery customers to govern system safety and performance, and to dispatch according to market rules and interconnection constraints. Other times it means correctly anticipating and hitting peaks in demand. That's the expertise Fluence bought.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Since 2014, non-residential storage system prices have declined by more than 15 percent in the U.S. Commercial and industrial customers with predictable, peaky loads are increasingly turning to storage to help manage demand charges. WoodMac finds that battery prices for non-residential storage in the U.S. Battery trends.

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Charged

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Our advantage is that all our brands have the same platform for electric products and the same batteries that we buy in China.”. Execs at Daimler and other European brands have been crying the blues about EV profits for some time, and GM’s recent downsizing moves indicate that it expects electrification to lead to reduced demand for labor.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 23, 2020

In our Energy Transition Outlook (ETO), peak energy demand arrives in 2040; in the AET, it's 2029. For a 2-degree world, energy demand will need to peak much sooner — in just three years' time, by 2023. Coal, oil and gas see a fall in demand and therefore the marginal cost of supply will fall too, driving prices lower.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Distributed energy resources (DERs) like rooftop and distributed solar, behind-the-meter batteries and electric vehicles are a key challenge for utilities around the world, since they upend the century-old model of one-way delivery of power from central generators through transmission and distribution networks to end customers.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

Utilities worldwide are arguably facing the most demanding and far-reaching changes in their operations, with multiple pressures, both top-down from governments and bottom-up from grassroots consumers in addition to their own responsibilities as modern-day businesses. Electricity 4.0 Electricity 4.0

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 6, 2020

Cement kilns, furnaces and boilers can’t compete with electric vehicles, wind turbines and batteries in stirring the public’s imagination. And the problem has been getting worse: Direct industrial emissions rose by 65 percent from 1990 to 2014. But industrial emissions are too important to overlook.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

It has come down by an average of 78% across the continent since 2014. With economies starting to reopen and the demand for commodities picking up, the first half of 2021 has highlighted the critical role of materials pricing in the industries of the power transition. Increased commodity pricing not a factor.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Paul-Frederik Bach, a former transmission system operator executive, started tracking European wholesale electricity prices on his blog in 2014. “Whichever plant was required to meet the last megawatt of demand is the price-setting technology,” said Tom Edwards, senior modeler at Cornwall Insight, in an email.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In 2014, the vast majority of storage projects Greensmith Energy was working on might have best been described as science projects, often dependent on grants or utility R&D budgets devoted to figuring out emerging technologies. That is a value that a battery manufacturer can’t offer.”

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to generous feed-in tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could cover half of the country’s electricity demand.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Founded in 2014 Upside Energy is one of a growing band of start-ups working to develop and deploy digital and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that can automatically balance supply and demand on the grid and help end users take advantage of low cost surplus clean power.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Batteries are another important tool in the kit, but so are air conditioners, water heaters, refrigerators, pumps, and other behind-the-meter flexible loads — not to mention electric vehicles. The Golden State is by far the biggest market for solar, behind-the-meter batteries and plug-in electric vehicles. California.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

according to a 2014 study. But a 2014 research paper suggested that due to how carbon interacts with certain rock formations, not all such aquifers are necessarily effective for storing it. Robertson said he finds this “tremendously problematic” because “wells fail and they fail all the time”. percent and 75 percent.,

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 12, 2018

To encourage changes to the generation mix, the Japanese government is promoting the installation of lithium-ion batteries for residential and industrial use by subsidizing the capital costs of the battery system. Allocating nearly 16 billion yen to the subsidy program between FYs 2014-2017. Source: BNEF. Source: BNEF.

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Clean Energy Trust

MAY 6, 2020

a software platform and services for battery lifecycle management and stewardship, and Iris Light Technologies, Inc., Renewance provides lifecycle management solutions to the battery energy storage and electric vehicle industries. Support Groundbreaking Midwest Innovation CHICAGO, IL?—?May May 6, 2020?—?Clean

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In 2014, Minneapolis used the expiration of its franchise agreement with Xcel Energy to press the utility on clean energy. Another emerging trend is cities banding together to demand changes from a utility. There’s a demand side of this equation that I think is out there but ends up being silent a lot of the time. Bonugli said.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 12, 2018

To encourage changes to the generation mix, the Japanese government is promoting the installation of lithium-ion batteries for residential and industrial use by subsidizing the capital costs of the battery system. Allocating nearly 16 billion yen to the subsidy program between FYs 2014-2017. Source: BNEF. Source: BNEF.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2022

Since the IPCC’s last report on climate change mitigation in 2014, the world has seen the renewable energy industry surge and some of the fossil fuel industry’s favored concepts, like carbon capture and sequestration, flounder.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Since 2010, wind power has grown from providing under one per cent to providing 10 per cent of electricity in Brazil, and provided 15 per cent of the EU's electricity demand in 2019. For example, continued improvements in battery technology are making electric vehicles (EVs) increasingly competitive with gasoline cars.

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