GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

California grid operator CAISO has been curtailing renewable energy at record levels this year, as the state’s ever-rising share of solar power during daylight hours increasingly outpaces electricity demand. Grid operator ISO New England reported 3 percent to 5 percent declines in system demands in the previous week.

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Solar Industry

DECEMBER 5, 2023

OhmConnect has integrated its Market-Aware Behind-the-Meter Battery Storage Pilot Program with SunPower, recently introduced as part of the California Energy Commission’s Demand Side Grid Support Program. The post OhmConnect Integrates Battery Storage Program for Sunpower Customers appeared first on Solar Industry.

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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? The post Are You Doing Solar Only Halfway?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

But what about all those air conditioners, batteries and industrial loads that are supposed to support the grid? She’s an expert on utility business models, grid integration, and demand response. She’s going to help us understand the technology and market-design landscape for demand response.

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Solar Industry

AUGUST 22, 2023

The SolarEdge Home Battery , from SolarEdge Technologies Inc. , is now included in Xcel Energy ’s new Renewable Battery Connect virtual power plant (VPP) incentive program. 16% of the company’s battery installations are now enrolled in grid services programs. In the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

rooftop solar installer, finalized two utility partnerships to turn home batteries into miniature power plants. Participants will receive $250 for letting Sunrun control their batteries based on signals from SCE. Individuals are paying for batteries out of their own pockets that could prove valuable to the broader grid.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is asking state regulators to approve another massive round of energy storage procurements, including its first large-scale contract for behind-the-meter batteries to serve grid needs. The 27 MW aggregation is the first large-scale behind-the-meter battery project for PG&E, but not for the state as a whole.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Global energy storage platform provider Powin and Pulse Clean Energy, an investor, developer and operator of flexibility and stability assets in the UK, will deploy a 50MW/110MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) on the Scottish project Overhill, located in Aberdeen.

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 5, 2022

As residential battery demand continues to grow due to state incentives for systems and the need to aid the grid during extreme weather, more inverter manufacturers are getting in the game. Companies including Enphase, SolarEdge and Tigo Energy have started producing residential batteries of their own for seamless technology pairings.

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 30, 2020

… The post Public safety power shutoffs and equity resiliency incentives – a perfect storm for home battery demand appeared first on Solar Power World. In Q3 2019, energy storage deployments grew 93% versus Q3 2018, with behind-the-meter projects accounting for 55% of the total storage market.…

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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. “But if the aggregations do include demand response, the opt-out can apply,” she said.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Oil major Shell has signed a multi-year offtake deal with what would be Europe’s largest battery installation. The 100-megawatt Minety project in the south-west of England, an area with a high concentration of solar power capacity, is expected to be completed by the end of the year. In contrast to the U.S.,

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Solar Power World

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Decreasing costs, along with favorable incentives, have contributed to a swell in demand. In fact, according to a recent Aurora Solar survey of installers, over 70% of respondents currently offer storage today.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 24, 2021

Crews have started work installing the first energy storage battery units at Florida Power & Light’s massive Manatee Energy Storage Center. The utility says FPL Manatee Energy Storage Center will be the biggest solar power-battery storage facility in the world when operational. The Parrish, Fla.,

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 18, 2021

Hawaii's largest utility enlisted a new tool in its quest for a carbon-free electricity system: thousands of batteries installed in people's homes. Hawaiian Electric won regulator approval for a $25 million plan to harness solar and batteries at 6,000 homes across the islands of Hawaii, Maui and Oahu.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 11, 2020

Energy storage software company Stem will operate a 345-megawatt-hour portfolio of distributed batteries in Southern California Edison utility territory. But it didn’t develop or build these batteries — it’s taking them over from long-time competitor AMS. Managing these batteries isn't a simple task.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

The researchers say the proposal offers “a pragmatic approach to achieving zero-energy homes by harnessing wind and solar power”. All the excess electricity can be stored in a large, shared battery which can be drawn on during peak periods, such as during the winter evenings. “In Destined for the dumpster?

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

has a major new partner to bring its sleek, sensored and circuit-by-circuit remote-controllable electrical panels to market: lithium-ion battery giant LG Chem. On Thursday, LG Chem launched its new new " customizable backup ” solar-storage offering, which includes its RESU home batteries and a Span smart panel.

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Charged

APRIL 27, 2020

German commercial and industrial battery storage specialist Tesvolt will supply 2 MWh worth of energy storage for the project. Tesvolt produces storage systems with prismatic battery cells from Samsung SDI, based on a nickel manganese cobalt oxide chemistry. They will also store green energy from the public grid when it’s inexpensive.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Solar plus storage is fast emerging as a top choice, both at scale on the grid and also "behind the meter," installed in a home, apartment or commercial building. . When it comes to reliability, solar-with-storage systems offer the ability to charge a battery that can keep the power on during an outage.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

. “Enel offers companies a variety of tools to manage energy efficiently and lower their carbon footprint – from clean power contracts to load-side solutions like demand response,” says Paolo Romanacci, head Enel Green Power North America. households. In total, Enel has 1.8

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 27, 2024

Solar energy targets in Europe have increased by an average of 87%, however, grid and flexibility planning trail far behind renewable goals, putting the energy transition at risk. That is the finding of the latest analysis by Solar Power Europe, the association representing the entire European value chain.

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Solar Power World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Extensible Energy has released DemandEx, an inexpensive “virtual battery” for reducing demand charges and increasing ROI for commercial solar projects. The award-winning SaaS solution is easily integrated into new or existing commercial solar systems and can be used to decrease the cost and size of energy storage.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

While the immediate cause is still being investigated, we do know that California’s grid was experiencing multiple, coincident stressors — high demand, generators not performing when called upon and energy imports not showing up. 15, resulted in an electric grid unable to meet customer demand. And not just in California.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Batteries aren’t dead when they come to the end of their useful life in an electric vehicle. Reused or “second-life” lithium-ion batteries still have a lot of juice left in them, but so far the concept of using these batteries in stationary applications has yet to gain real market traction.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 8, 2024

More than 31 million people — nearly 10 percent of the population in the US — live in an area that will experience the total solar eclipse today. Millions more live near dirty power plants that could be tapped to make up for a loss of solar power. While solar generation falls, electricity demand is expected to rise.

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 19, 2021

With more people looking at their homes as sanctuaries in need of reliable electricity, the demand for residential battery backup is on the rise. In addition to puzzles and alcohol, one product that saw a significant boost in sales during the pandemic was the energy storage system.

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Solar Power World

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Lumin, a grid edge technology company focused on making ordinary circuits smart and transforming the value proposition of energy storage for homeowners, installers and battery manufacturers, has just marked its third year in operation and continues to see strong demand for its platform across the United States.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

gigawatt "all-source" procurement that will pit new renewables, energy storage, demand response and other clean resources against natural gas-fired power plants in a race to meet what could be a major shortfall in grid capacity in the next four years. California regulators have approved a 3.3-gigawatt gigawatts by 2022.

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Origis Energy and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) say construction has begun on the first of three projects in Mississippi with a total capacity of 550 MW plus 150 MW of battery storage. This is the largest battery storage portfolio announced in Mississippi and the largest solar portfolio under construction in the state.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

Power Engineering. Crews have started work installing the first energy storage battery units at Florida Power & Light’s massive Manatee Energy Storage Center. The utility says FPL Manatee Energy Storage Center will be the biggest solar power-battery storage facility in the world when operational.

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Solar Power World

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Umenei, NA Vertical Market Manager – Renewable Energy, Littelfuse Battery-based energy storage systems are in demand but their design is still considered to be in its infancy because the technologies are evolving rapidly.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Pooling a bunch of these different challenges under 1 contract would manage some of that new technology risk and those demand charge risks. In terms of physical abundance of electricity, Izzi was quick to add: "I had a power outage this week — it’s not just theoretical." once the vehicles and pricing are there.". Pull Quote.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The two 50MW batteries are located near the village of Minety in Wiltshire and are currently being developed by two Chinese state-owned companies. Batteries are uniquely suited to optimising power supplies as the UK moves towards a net-zero carbon system.". The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2020.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

GE won its biggest grid battery deal so far, to supply a solar plant in South Australia. The 200-megawatt Solar River plant will be coupled with a 100-megawatt/300-megawatt-hour GE Reservoir grid storage system. Solar River already secured Crown Development Approval, and could start generating power as early as 2021.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

What if we broadened the definition of a battery? What if, rather than electrochemical cells with anodes and cathodes, batteries were composed of thousands, or even millions, of internet-connected devices? Packetized Energy creates “virtual” batteries by tapping into smart devices in peoples’ homes and businesses.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 3, 2020

As battery prices continue to fall and the penetration of variable wind and solar generation rises, power plant developers are increasingly combining wind and solar projects with on-site batteries, creating “hybrid” power plants. Hybrid capacity and standalone battery capacity in each ISO queue.

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