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. Have you read?

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Charged

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Ireland-headquartered battery storage technology company ADS-TEC Energy has received more than 100 million euros in new orders, from both existing and new customers, for delivery of its fast-charging systems in 2023 and 2024. New customers include Dutch charging point operator PowerGo, which has ordered 20 ChargeBox systems.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

South Africa’s first public battery storage tender has awarded preferred bidder status to a consortium of CIP-owned Mulilo and renewables major EDF for three battery projects totalling 257MW/ 1,028MWh. When completed, the three projects will dispatch electricity under 15-year power purchase agreements to South Africa.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The project will use a standard frame 20MW/200MWh CO2 battery, which can supply energy to the grid for ten consecutive hours. It will be the first of a series of identical units using the same technology design, allowing Energy Dome to standardise the CO2 battery frames. Have you read? Remember, our world can’t wait.”

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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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Charged

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Designwerk’s Mega Charger is a battery-buffered charging station with two CCS charging points, each with maximum power output of 420 kW. The container-sized charging station is equipped with batteries with a capacity of up to 2 MWh, in order to avoid burdening the power grid at peak demand times.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

to deliver its first battery-based energy storage project connected directly to the transmission network, which will provide inertia and short-circuit power to the grid to keep it stable. Statkraft has chosen Fluence Energy UK, a subsidiary of Fluence Energy, Inc.,

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Charged

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The EX90 electric SUV, which is to be released in 2024, will be “the first Volvo car equipped with all the necessary hardware and (over time) software to enable bidirectional charging and direct energy storage from solar.” Volvo’s data shows that the average daily drive in Europe uses less than 10 kWh.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Italy’s Enel Group has announced a new investment strategy for the period 2024-2026, doubling down on grid investments and being more selective in renewables. The nearly €19 billion for grid investments will focus on improving quality, resiliency and digitalisation of the power grid, alongside new connections.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What we need to work on is (grid) investments.” People want this ability – more connections from batteries to be the most independent in their consumption.” However, added Armani, “what is not happening is (making) grids available and able to manage all of this energy production. “In With plans to spend €35.8

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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

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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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. Funding update: Gridmatic’s second closing Gridmatic, an AI-enabled power marketer, has announced the second closing of its first energy storage fund, bringing capital commitments to $50 million.

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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

APRIL 10, 2024

The Electric Thames project, a collaboration between UK Power Networks, LCP Delta and Marine Zero, is assessing the viability of using electric vessels to feed stored electricity back into London’s power grid. Thames vessel and quay operators will be surveyed over the coming weeks to identify and map out their needs.

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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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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

PARTNERSHIPS + DEPLOYMENTS American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) started operating its lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Nevada. DrinKicks ’ Kristeen Reynolds , Stepwise ’s Jane Chen , and SpadXTech ’s Lina González were named 2024 IMPEL Innovators.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The smart meter rollout is expected to get under way by the summer of 2024 and to extend over three years. In October, Luma also launched the Customer Battery Power Sharing Initiative as an emergency response programme to improve service reliability islandwide in Puerto Rico. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Sunrun has been selected to build Puerto Rico’s first Virtual Power Plant (VPP) by the island’s electric utility provider. Sunrun said it will aggregate the solar and battery storage systems of more than 7,000 customers to form the 17MW VPP. The company is aiming to dispatch the VPP in 2024.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

This data has been successfully used to develop unique energy tariffs, allowing smart devices to run or charge during off-peak hours or notify customers of peak demand as an opportunity to reduce consumption – saving money while reducing demand on the power grid. However, there are a number of challenges to successful deployment.

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AutoGrid

JULY 24, 2023

Transmission upgrades are vital to help build the net zero carbon grid of the future by integrating large-scale solar and wind farms into the nation’s power grids. Our progress report for summer 2024? Our progress report for summer 2024? But building transmission lines is contentious and time-consuming.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Have you read: bp to deploy AI for battery to grid flexibility IEA net zero update reiterates need for rapid grid expansion The System of Enablement will also enable insights into how existing electricity network infrastructure can be optimised to remove renewable integration constraints associated with network availability and accessibility.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 8, 2024

Utilities have increasingly recognised the increasing urgency of consumption management on the power grid as a high priority. However, says Garret Fitzgerald of the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA), although its importance is clear, this clarity is a recent phenomenon. This uptake was repeatedly cited as a key market focus.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Meanwhile, US-based substation equipment manufacturer Systems Control has been sold by Comvest Partners to Hubbell Incorporated, UK flexibility provider Statera Energy has been acquired by a Swedish equity infrastructure fund and $550 million debt and tax equity financing has been announced for US battery projects. serving as lenders.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The systems involve electric-powered vehicles communicating with the power grid to sell demand response services, usually overseen by a third party, such as energy retailers or aggregators. The new service features Nissan-unique energy management technology that controls the charging and discharging of EV batteries.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Also on the radar is the launch of AI software company Rhizome, a climate resilience planning platform for the power grid. The company, known for its energy market simulation software, is calling the acquisition a move to scale up and improve its platform in support of grid reliability and the energy transition.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 16, 2024

Have you read: PG&E trials V2X for public shutoff backup power California’s PG&E tapped 8,500 residential batteries for grid resilience Programme details Through the programme, PG&E may offer Citizens options to lease entitlements to PG&E electric transmission assets.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Wood Mackenzie's latest Global Energy Storage Outlook projects that deployments will grow 13-fold over the next six years, from a 12 gigawatt-hour market in 2018 to a 158 gigawatt-hour market in 2024. Energy storage can also provide backup power during events that disrupt the power grid. alone by 2023.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2022

GM repurposes vehicle hydrogen tech for power supply Electric Vehicle Charging: 3 of the UK’s most common questions. The reliability of the US electrical power grid has never been more important,” said Travis Hester, vice president of GM EV Growth Operations. “GM Have you read?

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AutoGrid

MARCH 30, 2022

Demand response (DR) first and foremost; targeted reductions in demand can have the same impact on the power grid as increasing supply and typically at lower cost (and with lower emissions).

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

billion toward building new renewable energy capacity over the next two decades, investing in transmission, and adding 800MW of battery storage in Missouri by 2038, the company explained how it is working to build EV charging infrastructure and reduce voltage. The Integrated Grid. This was originally published on Power-Grid.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

The San Francisco-based utility is emerging from bankruptcy with a massive debt load that could make it harder to raise the tens of billions of dollars of investment needed to prevent its power grid from causing more devastating wildfires. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid.

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Charged

JULY 28, 2023

Polish company Impact Clean Power Technology (Grenevia Group) has unveiled a rendering of its planned GigafactoryX, a large-scale battery factory for EVs and energy storage in Pruszków, near Warsaw. The facility will produce batteries with maximum dimensions of 1400 mm x 1000 mm x 400 mm and a maximum weight of 500 kg.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Obviously, more electricity is also going to be needed to provide power to vehicles through those many millions of chargers, and so significant investment is going to be needed to increase generation capacity and bolster power grids. Battery recycling is mission critical.

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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. The deal is expected to close in early 2024, pending regulatory approval.

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