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PG&E’s Latest Energy Storage Procurement Includes Fleet of Behind-the-Meter Batteries

GreenTechMedia

Pacific Gas & Electric is asking state regulators to approve another massive round of energy storage procurements, including its first large-scale contract for behind-the-meter batteries to serve grid needs. The 15-year agreement calls for Nexus Renewables U.S., gigawatt-hours, of energy storage projects.

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Hitachi Completes Acquisition of ABB Power Grids to Tackle Renewable Energy’s Rise

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ABB’s Power Grids unit earned about $10 billion in annual revenues last year from its businesses ranging from high-voltage transmission systems and transformers to distribution grid controls and battery systems.

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Southern California Edison Inks Another Massive Round of Utility-Scale Battery Contracts

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Six months after inking California’s largest single energy storage procurement, utility Southern California Edison has added another three massive utility-scale battery projects to its portfolio—plus a behind-the-meter battery project with Sunrun. The four-hour duration 2.63 utility record books. The four-hour duration 2.63

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Texas Energy System Faces a Winter Reckoning

GreenTechMedia

And while the state’s 22-gigawatt wind power fleet has faced problems stemming from icing of wind turbine blades and relatively low wind conditions that have reduced its ability to contribute to the grid, the primary failure is from the state’s natural-gas, coal and nuclear generator fleet, according to ERCOT data.

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An Inside Look at a Groundbreaking Solar-Storage Procurement in California

GreenTechMedia

And the Demand Response Auction Mechanism pilot project has allowed multiple vendors to aggregate batteries, plug-in electric vehicles , and smart-thermostat-enabled homes and businesses in fulfillment of Resource Adequacy requirements. What are the models for how behind-the-meter solar-battery systems can serve grid needs?

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The Top Energy Stories Of 2021

R-Squared Energy

That’s a recipe for higher oil prices, and subsequently higher gasoline and natural gas prices. Consumers saw that, as gasoline prices rose to their highest levels since 2014. Europe’s natural gas crisis. Europe suffered from a natural gas shortage this year. batteries, solar panels, wind turbines).

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Big Oil’s Been Secretly Validating Critics’ Concerns about Carbon Capture

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The carbon dioxide then is compressed and transported to sites where it is either stored underground, injected into oil and gas deposits for enhanced oil recovery, or used for a limited number of other applications such as beverage carbonation. A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology.

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