Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

gigawatts of utility-scale solar capacity in the first half of 2021, a 15% increase from the first half of 2020 and nearly halfway to the total capacity added in 2020, according to an analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence. Typically, the second and third quarters are the slowest for solar power capacity additions.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The ability to remotely operate microgrids, says SDG&E in a release, offers real-time monitoring, faster response to grid events, more efficient energy storage management and enhanced grid resilience.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In the first two quarters of 2021, climate tech companies raised $16B from VCs. 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

MARCH 4, 2022

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021 was a record-breaking year for investment in the energy transition and the deployment of renewable power, battery storage, and sustainable transportation, according to the 2022 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook published by BloombergNEF (BNEF) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE).

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2022

It follows a trial with deployment and testing of the system during the summer of 2021. Since then, the data centre has contributed several megawatts of capacity to Fingrid’s fast frequency reserve (FFR) market as part of the Fortum Spring’s virtual battery. Power can be drawn from the batteries in milliseconds without any delays.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 6, 2023

US asset manager Blackstone announced that private equity funds affiliated with it have closed the acquisition of Power Grid Components, an electric grid components manufacturer. “The acquisition of Power Grid Components fits squarely within one of our favorite investment themes – the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Electric services company Redeia, Spanish electric utility Red Eléctrica and Redeia’s tech platform Elewit announced the project, which combines and optimises lithium-ion and supercapacitor technologies, to provide multiple services to the power grid system. Of this, the project will receive a direct subsidy of €3 million ($3.2

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MAY 7, 2024

The integration of microgrid and battery elements has also been proposed for the Morenci mine, adding reliability to the electrical distribution system and potentially the regional grid, and providing battery storage for backup during power outages.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

The price of battery energy storage systems rose for the first time since records began in 2022, as raw material and component costs soared, and developers and system integrators increased their margins in the face of challenging economic headwinds and soaring energy costs worldwide. link] pic.twitter.com/C55UHprYIv.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The milestone recorded on December 31, 2021 marks completion of the initial phase of the company’s grid modernisation initiative, which was launched in January 2019. It also gives us clearer insight to the power grid and how it is operating, ultimately creating a smarter energy future for our customers and communities.”.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Uplight says the acquisition can lead to more customers enrolled in utility energy programs, more DER connections, and more program options for utilities, grid operators, energy producers, and businesses across increased market segments and geographies. Schnieder Electric acquired AutoGrid last year.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 6, 2023

Nostromo Energy, a US-based tech company, is developing an ice-based energy storage system that can operate as a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) to provide demand flexibility to the local power grid when needed. According to Nostromo, buildings, overall, account for 74% of all electricity consumption.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric has asked California regulators to approve seven battery projects totaling 423 megawatts, or nearly 1.7 gigawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, to meet its share of a statewide procurement that must be brought online by late next year to assure statewide grid stability.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

But while some 170,000 people attended last year's Consumer Electronics Show over four days at its sprawling Las Vegas exhibition space, CES 2021 was - for obvious reasons - an altogether different event, as it for the first time in its five-decade history took place virtually. Samsung's solar-powered TV remotes are set for rollout in 2021.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 22, 2024

These additions bring with them critical benefits to our power grid. Energy storage has unique capabilities to address grid resilience, with the ability to serve as generation, load, and transmission. Developers plan to expand US battery capacity to more than 30GW by the end of 2024. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 22, 2024

These additions bring with them critical benefits to our power grid. Energy storage has unique capabilities to address grid resilience, with the ability to serve as generation, load, and transmission. Developers plan to expand US battery capacity to more than 30GW by the end of 2024. Have you read?

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Charged

JUNE 14, 2022

The company sold wireless charging services for 200 buses to the Dan bus company in October 2021. As part of the agreement Electreon will provide maintenance, support and operation services for the next 12 years. This is the second commercial deal signed by Electreon in Israel. million in the project. Source: Electreon.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

Vistra has announced that its DeCordova battery energy storage system (BESS) in Granbury, Texas, is online and storing and releasing electricity to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid. Aerial – battery containers. Project construction began in June 2021 and was finished in less than a year.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Entergy New Orleans announced the launch of “Operation Gridiron,” a $1 billion power infrastructure programme designed to make the city’s grid stronger and to better prepare for more frequent, stronger storms. billion nationwide investment plan to strengthen the grid , create microgrids, and enable more renewable energy generation.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

Burns & McDonnell said on Monday that it was selected by LG Energy Solution and Sustainable Environmental Renewable (SER) Capital Partners to provide engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services for three 10-MW/20-MWh lithium-ion, stand-alone battery energy storage systems. Project construction is expected to be complete by June 2021.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

But while some 170,000 people attended last year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) over four days at its sprawling Las Vegas exhibition space, CES 2021 was - for obvious reasons - an altogether different event, as it for the first time in its five-decade history took place virtually. General Motors accelerates electric vision.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 11, 2021

Under the guise of Gambit Energy Storage LLC, a secretive subsidiary of Tesla, a new, 100-megawatt battery is coming to Angleton, Texas. The project follows a massive winter storm that rendered the Texas power grid useless. The battery is expected to power up to 20,000 homes. Read the original post:Â .

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at Skeleton Technologies’ €108 million funding round, with investors such as Siemens Financial Services and Marubeni Corporation, for supercapacitor manufacturing and development of new high-power battery technology, namely the SuperBattery.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 5, 2021

February 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Climate Software Gold Rush | Lone Star State Struggles | Jobs and the Energy Transition Credit: Poole Group This month, we’re covering the rush of investing into startups that quantify, manage, and verify carbon emissions reductions, Texas’ grid troubles, new research on transitioning fossil fuel workers, and more!

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Charged

MARCH 30, 2021

Following the launch of the 2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe plug-in hybrid, Jeep has announced a partnership with Electrify America to create the Jeep 4xe Charging Network. Each station will deliver Level 2 charging, which can charge the Jeep Wrangler 4xe’s 17 kWh battery pack in about two hours, delivering up to 21 miles of electric range.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 31, 2020

The all-cash transaction is expected to close in early 2021 and will create a “complete electric utility solution from generation to metering,” according to Emerson’s press release. Portland General Electric, for example, has worked with OSI Inc.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 26, 2021

The floating solar and storage peaking plant has a target capacity of 500 MWp floating PV with battery energy storage system (BESS) up to 200-MWh capacity. The project is designed to have the capability to provide load-following and peaking power that would traditionally be provided by fossil-fuel sources.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The preferred system plan portfolio differs from one previously adopted by including more solar and battery storage, as well as new long-duration storage, out-of-state wind, and offshore wind resources. The decision said the process to include offshore wind in IRP capacity expansion models began in early 2020 and is due to wrap up in 2022.

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CleanTech Alliance

JULY 14, 2021

In June 2021, the Pacific Northwest suffered the worst heat wave in recorded history. Since record keeping began in 1894, only three days have ever recorded a temperature of over 100° F, but June 2021 had three consecutive days of temperatures over 100° F. The unprecedented heat wave devastated crops, with the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

As the clean energy transition accelerates, expect that policymakers will pay close attention to both security of energy supply and security of technology supply: Security of energy supply: Decentralized energy generation reliant upon wind and solar energy is inherently more resilient than large-scale, centralized power grids.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 20, 2021

The electric revolution needs sustainable battery materials Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 01/20/2021 – 00:15 To electrify many of the world’s vehicles in the coming years, the EV industry will need to procure a massive amount of lithium-ion batteries.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

a 2021 battery EV – charged from today’s power grid – creates only about one-third as much greenhouse gas emissions as a similar 2021 gasoline-powered car. Since our current power grid relies on fossil fuels for about 60% of its generating capacity , that’s a tall order. Sign up today.].

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

State regulators have proposed a major set of responses to what could be a looming grid reliability shortfall in Sothern California, including a 2.5-gigawatt gigawatt reliability resources procurement between 2021 and 2023. gigawatts by 2021, and 2.2 Fitch wrote in Thursday’s proposed decision.

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AutoGrid

DECEMBER 4, 2023

PSE and AutoGrid began working together on a VPP program in 2021 to provide a centralized application for enrolling, dispatching, and assessing the performance of individual and combined DR programs across PSE’s portfolio. With the help of AI, C&I buildings can respond to the real-time needs of power grids.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The preferred system plan portfolio differs from one previously adopted by including more solar and battery storage, as well as new long-duration storage, out-of-state wind, and offshore wind resources. The decision said the process to include offshore wind in IRP capacity expansion models began in early 2020 and is due to wrap up in 2022.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 29, 2022

Have you read National Grid ESO overhauls market settlement Ready to embrace IEC 61850 everywhere in your power grid? Ofgem supports National Grid with £1.5m It will further strengthen the national grid’s dynamic containment frequency response service and offset risk of increased reliance on wind generation.

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Charged

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The eGen Flex system features a new drive unit, inverter and battery pack. The battery pack incorporates the latest lithium titanate (LTO) technology, which increases energy density, allows for faster charging and enables pure electric (engine-off) extended range capability. Source: Allison Transmission.

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