Smart Energy International

JANUARY 30, 2023

Form Energy is partnering up with a US utility Xcel Energy for commercial deployment of its iron-air battery storage system. The 1GWh multi-day storage system will be used to integrate renewables and maintain grid reliability as retiring coal plants in two US states are shut down. Learn more at: [link].

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 8, 2024

Despite record investments into power grid expansion to accommodate demand, grid operators Alliander, Enexis and Stedin have reported inefficient capacity to prevent increasing network congestion. Said Koen Bogers, CEO of Stedin: “Stedin does everything within its capacity to expand the power grid…But that won’t be enough.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

Zenobe claims Battery will be largest grid-connected battery in Europe and first to absorb reactive power directly from a transmission network.

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CleanTech San Diego

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Cleantech San Diego member Baker Electric Home Energy, a leading solar, battery, and home energy solution provider, has announced the launch of its ChargeOn Battery Rewards Program in partnership with sonnen, a global market leader in smart energy storage and virtual power plant (VPP) technology. Photo courtesy of sonnen.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Government and grid operators in the Netherlands are taking new, urgent measures to ensure sufficient space on the Dutch power grid as demand continues to surge in the compact country. That is good news, but it also puts enormous pressure on our power grid.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 22, 2024

New additions of 3,983MW of new capacity represent a 358% increase compared to the same period in 2022. 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. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 22, 2024

New additions of 3,983MW of new capacity represent a 358% increase compared to the same period in 2022. 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. Have you read?

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Also on the radar are the closing of Gridmatics’ storage fund, Siemens’ financial safety net and the sale of a 410MW battery storage pipeline. The fund is earmarked to oversee the management of up to 500MW of battery capacity in the ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) and CAISO (California Independent System Operator) markets.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 23, 2022

They aim to build momentum for a cleaner and more resilient regional power grid. Brockelman Road is a solar+plus+storage project capable of generating 1.7MW of solar energy alongside 1MW/2MWh of battery storage. EnergyStorage is a key part of making our grid cleaner and more resilient.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

This latest briefing, “ Better, Faster, Cleaner: Securing clean energy technology supply chains”, makes the case that global supply of key materials and components is sufficient to meet growing demand for clean energy technologies (wind, solar, batteries, grids, heat pumps) over the medium- to long-term.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

. £119,000 for Lightricity Ltd (Based in Oxford and partnered with Bradford Swissport Limited): Using a unique, patented technology that harnesses the energy from indoor and low-level lightsources to power battery-free tracking devices.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Related: 20 new electric vehicles driving onto the scene in 2022 But don’t try to book your electric bus ticket yet. power grid and $39 billion allocated to public transit systems. Still, FlixBusUSA intends to have a full-time electric bus route up and running in 2022, probably in Oregon. People were really proud.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While hydrogen may have an important role to play in future, batteries are the better option for rail decarbonisation in the short term, argues Hitachi Rail CEO Andrew Barr. As an engineer I find the speed of innovation in batteries incredible. Batteries and hydrogen. Becoming a climate change innovator with batteries.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

Energy security will remain centre-stage Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, energy security became one of the top considerations of policymakers, energy companies and consumers worldwide. In Australia, ESS technology will enable the retirement of large coal-fired power stations.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

On November 4, 2022, the White House announced a new initiative to support research and development projects on 37 “game-changing” technologies to advance the Biden Administration’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. We will be tracking future funding announcements under this initiative.

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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

The first phase of the project was grid-connected in Q1, 2022, while the rest will be brought online later in the year. The energy storage project comes as Sungrow, an inverter solution supplier for renewables, announced a partnership with Statera Energy, an independent power producer and flexibility provider to the UK grid.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

A British initiative is looking to dismiss the argument that renewables could topple the grid — by using distributed energy resources for a black start. ” Distributed ReStart was launched in January 2019 and is set to run to March 2022, with £10.3 If successful, the U.K. million ($13.5

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Charged

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In the beginning of 2022, Phoenix Contact established a new team within the U.S. In a world with widespread electric vehicle adoption and adequate charging infrastructure, customers could charge at nearly any location and any time, not only when the battery level is too low for planned travel.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 7, 2020

California’s two days of rolling blackouts in August were the result of disconnects between its existing grid reliability constructs and the needs of an increasingly solar-powered grid, and its failure to prepare for a Western U.S.-wide wide heatwave that undermined its reliance on out-of-state resources.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This means that in the event of a heatwave, a spike in electricity use would ultimately test the power grid’s ability to meet supply with demand, potentially resulting in summer brownouts or blackouts. This enables a more environmentally prudent supply of electricity to meet peak power loads, while also containing costs.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2023

With a power grid that has been notoriously unreliable in the past, India’s goal to transform formerly passive consumers into prosumers would seem an uphill battle. To put that into perspective, the electricity demand for Germany in 2022 was 200 GW. Asset Diversity: As is the case in the U.S. Just as in the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

Several out-of-state power grids also reported emergency conditions on Monday and Tuesday. SCE also tapped capacity bidding programs for utility-owned behind-the-meter battery systems to provide power, yielding approximately 5 megawatts, Griffo said. Meanwhile, heat waves have continued across the Western U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 7, 2020

Minnesota utility Great River Energy confirmed Thursday that it will pilot Form's technology, identified for the first time as an "aqueous air" battery system. GRE announced Thursday that it will shut down Coal Creek in the second half of 2022. That means scaling it up for future projects won't require redesigning the system.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 19, 2023

NextGrid is a new research and innovation project that prepares those working in grid company operating centres to manage the complexity and automated processes needed for the future power grid. This will lead to an increasingly unpredictable power flow. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

JULY 15, 2022

The Spanish electric utility company Iberdrola through its subsidiary Neoenergia has been awarded its largest power grid line project, according to the regulatory agency, National Electricity Agency (Aneel). Have you read: Iberdrola switches on commercial-scale battery system in Ireland Smart metering and power line communications.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 17, 2022

Enel and stakeholders of the power distribution ecosystem gathered in Rome for the Net Zero Grid Day, in which Enel announced Enel’s Open Power Grids association and Gridspertise’s expansion into the US as part of their ‘net zero strategy’ for grids. Open Power Grids association.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 8, 2023

Saskatchewan, meanwhile, has long been a major global supplier of potash, a critical fertilizer for agriculture, but with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine cutting off supply from the world’s second largest source, Canada’s exports more than doubled between 2021 and 2022.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 8, 2022

Keith Buddon, head of business development at Cenex – an independent non-profit research and consultancy – responded to this quandary during the Smart Mobility Africa Fleet Summit , taking place during Enlit Africa 2022. Rather than exporting, vehicles can in these cases be used as battery storage.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

” Levelized cost of energy data from WoodMac shows both wind and solar now beating new-build combined-cycle natural gas plants, with solar slated to undercut wind prices in 2022 in Wisconsin. ” For large-scale projects, 2019 is the last year to get the full ITC before it gradually steps down to a permanent 10 percent in 2022.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This heat feeds surging demand for electricity and increased strain on already taxed power grids. These climate change linked trends are highlighting the growing need for distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS) that can manage the grid intelligently while quickly responding to the real-time needs of grid operators.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

CPUC has proposed to stage this procurement over three years, requiring each load-serving entity (LSE) in question to get 60 percent of their total by 2021 and 80 percent of their total by 2022. gigawatts in 2022, and of Southern California Edison, which offered the even more dire prognosis of as much as 5.5 gigawatts by 2021, and 2.2

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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. Gretchen Whitmer and the MPSC of the MI Power Grid initiative.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

The federal government has released a new paper, Powering Canada Forward , which lays out the federal government’s vision for a 100% clean power grid by 2035. Canada’s grid is already 84% emissions free, but as the energy transition progresses, more homes, vehicles, and industries will be plugging into the grid.

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