Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Kyon Energy received approval for a 137.5MW/275MWh battery project that will be located near a substation, charging and discharging as per renewable availability to help shave peak demand from Germany’s power grid. The battery storage project will be located in Alfeld (Leine), Lower Saxony, Germany.

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altenergymag

JULY 22, 2022

-Enel Green Power has completed its first large-scale hybrid wind project globally, Azure Sky wind + storage, featuring 350 MW of wind capacity and 136.5 MWh of storage capacity. -In In addition, the company will add 57 MW/85.7

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

EIS, a distributor of electrical process materials and components in North America, announced the successful acquisition of Power Grid Supply (PGS), a supplier of transformer parts and components for the production, repair, and remanufacturing of transformers.

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Charged

AUGUST 21, 2023

Newly launched renewables services company Bullet EV , headquartered in Austin, Texas, has announced its goal of taking on the challenges of EV charger scarcity, a strained power grid and volatile electricity rates. The company plans to expand nationally during 2024. Source: Bullet EV

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Peaking at nearly 32MW from 8,500 solar-plus-storage residential systems, Sunrun and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) customer batteries provided consistent clean energy to California’s power grid through the summer and fall of 2023.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

bp has entered an agreement with Harmony Energy Income Trust to offer power trading and optimisation services for two battery storage systems, making use of a previously acquired AI-based platform to support the power grid during hours of peak demand.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

British energy developer Balance Power has secured planning approval for a 40MW battery storage project in Cheshire, which will export stored renewable power to the grid when demand is high. It’s crucial in diversifying the energy network and reducing the need for fossil fuel technologies.”

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 27, 2023

When those days happen, many people lose the full potential benefit of their residential solar systems , so they only get half of the potential benefit of a solar power system. Why are people only partly benefitting from their residential solar power units? Because they are not storing excess energy with a battery system.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

Grid modernisation initiatives, including the movement to new technologies such as smart grids, are spurring the demand for battery energy storage systems (BESS), according to latest research from Research and Markets. billion by 2026. The report finds that the BESS market in the US is currently estimated at $1.3

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TechXplore

MARCH 8, 2024

But first, an important consideration for these flying batteries is where they will charge and whether the existing power grid infrastructure can accommodate this demand. Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft might quickly move passengers over mountains or float them across urbanscapes.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 5, 2024

China’s state planner National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has released reform recommendations on how China, the largest EV market globally, can optimally integrate electric vehicles into power grid planning. in residential communities.

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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.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Octopus Australia has acquired the Queensland-based Blackstone battery development project with a 1GWh storage capacity, one of Australia’s largest battery systems, connected to the 275kV high voltage transmission network.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2021

” That’s how a range of clean energy advocates and demand response providers are describing the California Public Utilities Commission’s latest plan to prevent a repeat of the state’s August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 9, 2024

What do the Nissan Leaf, floating solar, flywheels and flow batteries have in common? Each is being tested by Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) at their Gardenia Innovation Centre, with the potential outcome of being deployed for power grid management. Flywheels and battery testing grounds.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Now FERC is being asked to put that authority to a new use: ending a decade-old provision allowing individual states to opt out of letting demand response companies enlist customers to turn down their energy use to support the power grid. ” Why demand-side resources are gaining grid power.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Californian utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has unveiled four new microgrids with advanced remote operation capabilities and safety technologies to help enhance grid reliability.

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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

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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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 8, 2024

Millions more live near dirty power plants that could be tapped to make up for a loss of solar power. Grid managers have had to find backup sources of energy to cope with the eclipse. It shows us how far the nation has come in cleaning up its power grid — and what we’re still in dire need of to complete that task.

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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. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed “This achievement is an important and significant milestone for Mulilo.

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AutoGrid

MARCH 30, 2022

How VPPs Reduce Both Costs and Emission in Meeting Peak Demands. The emergence of virtual power plants (VPPs) as bona fide replacements for fossil fuel peaker plants has been discussed conceptually, but is there data to support this opportunity? combustion turbines burning natural gas or oil meet most of the peak power demands.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The integration of renewable energy sources into the power grid presents unique challenges, such as intermittent generation and grid stability. Enhancing grid resilience Energy storage systems play a vital role in enhancing the resilience of power grids.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Swell Energy has lined up $450 million in financing to give homeowners and business owners batteries and solar systems at no upfront cost, and earn the money back by turning them into virtual power plants serving utilities’ grid needs. Swell’s behind-the-meter battery-based VPP proposition.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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Charged

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The chargers have an integrated battery storage system and are installed with a connection to a standard voltage power grid. The demand for ultra-fast charging points in Northern Ireland is high,” says Ron Whitten, CFO at Henderson Group. Each unit has one 150 kW and one 100 kW charge point.

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Charged

JANUARY 26, 2024

Collection vehicles are ideally suited for V2G applications, says Veolia, because their batteries are six times larger than those in an average car, and the fleet is typically parked at peak energy consumption times. “By

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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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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Sunny and breezy weather coupled with lower demand for power due to lockdown prompted negative electricity prices on Sunday. Demand is around 19GW, which is getting towards summer overnight levels (I think lowest Grid has coped with recently was 17GW). per cent to their lowest level since the 1800s.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

With 2023 coming to a close, the impact of climate change and rapidly increasing electricity demand have illustrated the crucial importance of grid investment to ensure the grid is fit for purpose. What we need to work on is (grid) investments.” With plans to spend €35.8 Join Enlit Europe in Paris. Register now

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Solar Industry

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Summerland is one of five municipalities in the province to own its electrical utility, allowing the community to keep money in the local economy and increase the resiliency of the power grid, says Wildstone. This is meant to eliminate short-term demand spikes and lower peak loads, reducing overall demand costs.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

At the same time as launching a V2G pilot, Volvo Cars is launching Volvo Cars Energy Solutions, a new business unit that will offer energy storage and charging-related technologies and services with bidirectional capacity, enabling customers to discharge energy back onto the power grid.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Rolls-Royce has announced that six of eight mtu EnergyPacks have been delivered to German energy solutions company VISPIRON, which makes use of a virtual power plant in combination with an auto trading system to provide grid stability. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Charged

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Together with Göteborg Energi, the local electric utility in Volvo’s Swedish hometown of Gothenburg, the automaker is now launching a pilot program that aims to test V2G technologies on the local energy grid and in a home environment with real customers, using a low-cost AC wallbox.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 10, 2021

Fort Chipewyan is an isolated community in Canada that is not connected to the main power grid. The community, which used to rely on diesel for power generation, is now home to the country’s largest community solar and storage microgrid project. The microgrid was developed in cooperation with ATCO and Hitachi ABB Power Grids.

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Charged

MARCH 25, 2022

The system is designed to test the battery management systems (BMS) of EVs and power grids. The board is also able to simulate different cell balancing scenarios by supporting peak currents up to 20 A per channel, and to simulate short circuits, cable breaks and defective battery cells.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 20, 2022

The solar and energy storage developer will be purchasing 2.4GWh of EnerVenue’s nickel hydrogen BESS and 4.5GWh of Urban Electric’s zinc alkaline battery systems. The deals were signed within days of each other, signalling Pine Gate Renewables’ attempts to look into and invest in lithium-ion alternatives for their battery storage systems.

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