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

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. Courtesy of Vistra. Mortenson provided engineering and construction expertise.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 19, 2022

Engineering consulting firm Burns & McDonnell completed construction of three 10 MW/20 MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage systems in West Texas. Kansas City-based Burns & McDonnell tapped its direct-hire subsidiary Ref-Chem to complete construction and installation of the batteries.

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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. The three facilities are located in the West Texas region.

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AutoGrid

JULY 5, 2023

They can help to balance the supply and demand of electricity by storing excess energy and providing services that help complement new or existing renewable generation deployments. Grid-Scale Batteries Grid-scale energy storage systems include batteries, flywheels, pumped hydro, and compressed air energy storage.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

utilities have to plan for an electricity peak driven by summer air conditioning and cooling demand, Duke and other Southeastern utilities face an equally daunting winter peak driven by a reliance on electric heating and unpredictable cold snaps, as this U.S. While most U.S. Energy Information Administration data illustrates.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

“Then the questions become how to achieve the 100 percent renewable future everyone is talking about without causing disturbances in the grid and effectively managing solar ramp rates and generation optimization.” Equally important is GEMS’ prediction of the renewable generation available to meet electricity demand.

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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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Business Green

MAY 5, 2021

Minerals such as lithium and copper are critical for EVs and renewables, but a lack of investment and policy clarity risks undermining the burgeoning market. The expansion of electricity networks to support the shift towards EVs and heat pumps, as well as enhance energy access, also requires a huge increase in copper and cobalt supplies.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 8, 2023

Demand for high-quality iron ore is subsequently expected to grow significantly. Similarly, Canada has many of the key critical minerals needed for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, including lithium and nickel. Without it, we risk seeing our grid get dirtier as we try to meet demand—and with it, lose our competitive edge.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 11, 2021

The facility will include 30 research laboratories, some of which will be testing chambers capable of assessing prototypes and new grid energy storage technologies under real world grid operating conditions. The GSL will speed up the process considerably by doing the work needed to develop and deploy new grid storage technologies.”.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As a nascent industry, battery storage lacks historical data, requiring investors and lenders to familiarize themselves with its unique qualities. Installing storage, whether as a standalone asset or by adding it to an existing utility power source, is highly individualized from one project to another. alone by 2023.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

This is notable because it would actually boost the demands on the power sector, which will increase the challenges of decarbonizing the sector. He didn’t mention nuclear power or carbon sequestration in this speech, but his website does mention them among four specific goals designed to decarbonize the power sector.

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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. “It’s not economical today.”

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Also on the radar are announcements of an integrated platform for interconnector-based energy trading between the UK and Netherlands as well as an insurance policy partnership for Li-Ion battery products. Image courtesy Great Power. Great Power’s battery cells have been extensively evaluated and are being thoroughly validated.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

Even without extreme weather events, the power grid needs love. The grid was largely built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 35- to 80-year life expectancy , meaning much of it should have been retired and replaced by now. Make the grid smarter and more flexible. America’s energy infrastructure scored a C-minus on the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

After years of selling more expensive home battery systems, sonnen launched a new product Thursday to compete on cost with other mainstream options in the U.S. The Germany-based company, acquired by oil major Shell in 2019, designed its sonnenCore system to deliver daily cycling for grid services as well as backup power.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Firstly, getting more people walking, on their bicycles, and onto trams and trains reduces demand for vehicles and vehicle miles, while also providing a health benefits through better air quality and exercise - after all, even EVs still produce particle pollution from brake and tyre wear. Battery recycling is mission critical.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 15, 2021

If we could deploy solar and wind, and use this renewable energy to power our cars and homes, we would make a big dent in the problem. However, I soon realized that the architecture of our power grid would need to be reimagined. This is when I started AutoGrid to become a catalyst for transition into clean energy.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Results show the technology is cost-competitive with lithium-ion batteries, pumped storage hydropower and natural gas peaker plants. The field results also demonstrated that Sage can alternatively provide high-powered, short-duration power (load-following) during peak demand. Sage Geosystems Inc. ,

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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.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Further, the results show Sage’s technology is cost-competitive with lithium-ion batteries, pumped storage hydropower, and natural gas peaker plants. Calculated LCOS that is cost-competitive to pumped storage hydropower and lithium-ion batteries. ” Landmark Results Short- and Long-Duration Storage.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

Microsoft also will continue to seek efficiency gains through technical design changes that reconsider how some resources, particularly the massive batteries that provide power backup, interact with the electricity grid, Janous added. A model for the future?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

They’re also a key dispatchable assets to help meet peak grid demand. Stage 2: ‘reshape’ the demand side of the grid. Likewise, the need for enough storage to replace existing natural gas peaker capacity exceeds that called for in “zero-percenter” utilities’ plans.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Photoncycle claims it can store solar power from summer to winter cheaper than batteries. The cylinder contains a patented solution of solid hydrogen, which reportedly has more efficient storage capabilities than batteries or liquid H2. Any excess energy will be sold to the power grid.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

A power system running solely on clean energy technologies is entirely feasible During a media briefing yesterday, CCC officials made a point of emphasising the huge amount of work it has put into producing its most detailed and comprehensive analysis of the UK's energy system to date.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Converting to a 21st-century grid that is increasingly based on variable resources requires a completely new way of thinking. New sources of flexibility – the ability to keep supply and demand in balance over all time scales – are essential to enable this transition. Storage is now largely being provided by lithium-ion batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

ACES will provide up to 150,000 megawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, a scale that dwarfs the lithium-ion battery capacity being installed in California and across the Intermountain West. How do you aggregate that demand to create sufficient momentum in the market to drive investment?".

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today. First, nationwide transmission allows power-sharing across regions facing widely different weather systems that drive variation in wind and solar generation.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Ford hit the brakes on construction of a new EV battery plant in Michigan last week as union workers escalated the strike against Detroit’s big three automakers. The US OEMs say they can't include planned battery production facilities in the labor contract negotiations, but the EV transition still looms large over the talks.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

Link The New York Times had a feature on this point as well, highlighting upcoming electric truck models and discussing how they will be a useful barometer for overall electric vehicle demand (since they are the types of vehicles that sell well). Link A gigantic battery procurement is underway in California.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

A dozen of Wrightbus' hydrogen buses have operated around London for years and Bamford saw an opportunity to complement his hydrogen production and refuelling business, which won a major contract to supply fuel to Transport for London in 2019, with a firm whose product offering could stimulate demand for the green fuel. He may be in luck.

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Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

When Edward Bartell first learned that a lithium mine might be moving into his remote corner of northern Nevada, the longtime cattle rancher wasn’t upset. “I He knew that lithium is a key metal used in batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid, and he knew the United States is going to need a lot of it to transition off fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2022

The Act allows the federal government to directly order manufacture production in order to enhance national defence and has been used in recent years to produce medical equipment in response to the coronavirus pandemic, boost production of lithium and other raw materials for the electric vehicle market, and tackle shortages of baby formula.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 21, 2021

But widespread EV adoption in the United States faces three critical challenges: a limited battery supply chain, inadequate charging infrastructure, and already strained power grids. Battery Supply Chain: Most electric vehicles run on lithium batteries.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 26, 2023

In what is the now the first largest commercial deployment of a Virtual Power Plant in the world, energy expert Enel X and 1,300 Gogoro battery-swapping GoStations will be helping the energy-hungry Taiwan power grid by supplying power during times when the demand is high and an imbalance is detected.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 2, 2021

New Capabilities Demonstrate How Renewables Can Stabilize and Support the Power Grid Maui is not waiting until 2045 to meet Hawaii’s clean energy mandates: The island is likely to become the first interconnected electric transmission system anywhere to operate with 100% wind and solar PV power on an instantaneous basis.

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