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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GreenTechMedia

MAY 18, 2020

Swedish battery maker Northvolt and state-owned utility Vattenfall launched a new modular and fully mobile energy storage system on Friday, one they say will be able to patch up stressed grids during a period of rapid electrification. The biggest obstacle for those targets is the country’s power grid.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

and Ampt, a company that optimises large-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems, announced the deployment of a combination of wind and solar generation together with battery storage within the microgrid at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT) campus in Pfinztal, Germany.

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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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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. Join Enlit Europe in Paris.

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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. After its 40-year lifecycle the project will be decommissioned, and the site will be returned to its former use and condition.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2022

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have reported demonstrating the underlying concept of quantum batteries. Quantum batteries, like quantum computing based on the behaviour of matter at the sub-atomic level, have the potential to revolutionise current technologies with the prospect of a new compact and powerful energy storage medium.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 11, 2024

billion) for the development of 60GWh worth of British battery energy storage. In a release, NatPower Group CEO Fabrizio Zago said the announcement marks the largest programme for the development of battery energy storage systems in the UK. million) towards developing substations to help speed up connections to the power grid.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2024

This is according to US-based consultancy Rethink Energy who in a report hail VPP technology as the core of future power grids. They add, however, that most of the time, stationary batteries will play a bigger role on the grid than V2G; EV batteries will only dominate discharging onto the grid during emergencies.

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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. Not investing in the grid is like accumulating cholesterol – you find out you are in bad shape.” Join Enlit Europe in Paris.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

GreenCom Networks, the Internet-of-things platform provider that’s become a go-to for major European utilities to control solar panels, batteries, electric vehicle chargers and smart home energy loads, has landed another funding round with two new strategic investors that could open new markets. Wednesday’s 12 million euros ($14.5

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

billion ($38.96) by 2026, more than half of this being funnelled into power grid investments, the Group said more focus will be placed on profitability, flexibility and resiliency through selective capital allocation to maximize its risk/return profile. Beyond the power grid , approximately €12.1 With plans to spend €35.8

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 18, 2022

East German energy service provider E.DIS has wrapped up its study on the influence of mobile battery energy storage on the distribution grid. E.DIS found from measurements and simulations in the demonstration, which ran from September 2020, that the battery storage system had a positive influence on the power grid.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

US-based energy storage company Pacific Green Technologies has announced a target of more than 12GWh in battery storage capacity across four global markets for this year. 2024 priorities include progressing the construction of Sheaf Energy Park ahead of its July 2025 commissioning date and further expanding the UK origination portfolio.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 24, 2020

The Bay Area company finished development of its Boost Charger, which delivers fast charging (up to 120-kilowatt output) while minimizing stress on the local power grid with the help of a built-in 160-kilowatt-hour battery. and eventually Europe, Sosinov said. and eventually Europe, Sosinov said.

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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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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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Charged

APRIL 13, 2022

One of the hottest trends in the EV world is bidirectional charging , which promises to allow EV batteries to be used to provide services to the electrical grid. Five production Porsche Taycans were connected to the power grid via the Porsche Home Energy Manager (HEM) both in a domestic environment and under laboratory conditions.

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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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Smart Energy International

MAY 1, 2024

Although the electrification of road transportation represents a significant challenge to our energy systems, adding pressure on power grids at the national and local levels, V2G provides immense potential as a source of flexibility to support the energy system of tomorrow, explains Francesco Nobili of Charles River Associate (CRA) Energy.

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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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altenergymag

JANUARY 28, 2020

Smart charging is resulting in e-mobility becoming increasingly intelligent by, for example, charging electric cars when it makes economic sense to do so or by allowing car batteries to temporarily store electricity for use in the car owner’s home or the power grid.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 7, 2024

Integrating EV charging into the power system remains a key barrier in the face of the e-mobility ecosystem, states the latest e-mobility report from Eurelectric and EY. According to Eurelectric, EVs are booming in Europe. Infrastructure is keeping up, with fast chargers being 10 times more powerful than just five years ago.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

BusinessGreen reports on the fast-evolving plans to establish a thriving EV battery recycling industry in the UK. Batteries are set to become even more ubiquitous than they are already. But what happens when these millions of batteries reach their end of life?

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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. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Charged

MARCH 10, 2020

The eTruck Charging Initiative will begin by focusing on charging stations at the depots of truck customers in the US and Europe. The initiative will bring together e-truck customers, power grid operators, energy suppliers, charging hardware manufacturers and charging software providers, says Daimler. Source: Daimler.

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Global Renewable News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

New research has found the relative.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 29, 2024

Dublin-based ESB Networks has announced that it has 1,000MW of electricity storage connected to the Irish power grid. According to the medium and low voltage electricity infrastructure operator, the figure includes 731.5MW of battery storage projects and 292MW from Turlough Hill pumped storage power station.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 23, 2024

Energy technology supplier Enphase Energy and Octopus Energy have announced a strategic partnership to integrate their platforms, allowing UK retail customers to access low-cost residential energy rates, Octopus Energy clients to create VPPs, and support battery management to ease congestion on the power grid.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2022

Since then, the data centre has contributed several megawatts of capacity to Fingrid’s fast frequency reserve (FFR) market as part of the Fortum Spring’s virtual battery. The Fortum Spring virtual battery is a growing platform comprised of the flexibility assets of thousands of customers, business and residential, across the Nordic countries.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 19, 2020

Europe, Asia and beyond. The degree to which this wave of new flexible resources can be tapped for grid-balancing will depend on four key areas, according to a new research insight from WoodMac. Wood Mackenzie expects that North America could have nearly 650 gigawatt-hours of EV battery capacity by 2030, up from 97.5 and Europe.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Hitachi Energy acquires eks Energy Tech major Hitachi Energy has announced a strategic acquisition of eks Energy, adding its advanced power electronics and energy management software capabilities to Hitachi’s growing portfolio.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As part of the Baltic power grid synchronisation project, the compensators will also be installed in Lithuania and Estonia – three in each country. Their construction is part of the transmission system infrastructure strengthening projects, which aims to sync the Baltic electricity system with continental Europe’s by 2025.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2022

By streamlining energy traders’ ability to match electricity supply to demand, the Tradenergy tool is aiming to help maintain the resilience and reliability of power grid operations. On a power grid, inertia is naturally produced by turbines and motors in fossil fuel generators that are synchronised to the same frequency.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

Similar targets are being implemented or considered in Europe and elsewhere globally. Today, energy storage = lithium-ion and the supply chain for lithium-ion batteries runs through a small number of countries, creating supply chain risks. GW of storage online by 2030.

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