DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s recent comments about the use of batteries for renewable energy infrastructure surprised experts, one of whom described the premier’s comments as possibly ideologically motivated misinformation. Power responded, “Batteries.” Much of what she says about batteries is misinformation,” Jacobson told DeSmog.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2021

The British hydropower industry is being hamstrung by changes to business rates valuations which have lumbered some leading developers with crippling tax bills that have led directly to redundancies and curtailed plans to boost renewable energy capacity. You can't increase prices, you can't cut costs.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Mark Wilson is CEO of Intelligent Land Investments, a firm focused on pumped storage hydro and utility-scale battery storage. ILI has also built a portfolio of battery storage sites, mainly in Scotland, which can contribute a further 2GW utility scale projects with green hydrogen to follow. However, the policy makers have to keep up.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

Report funded by Scottish Renewables, the British Hydropower Association, Buccleuch, CCSQ, Drax Group, Intelligent Land Investments Group, SSE Renewables. While batteries provide tremendous flexibility over short time periods, we also need to be able to store large amounts of electricity for hours and even days.

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Charged

MAY 31, 2022

Battery “gigafactories” are under construction all over the world—and none too soon. As EV sales grow, it is critical to establish local battery production and shorten supply chains. Britishvolt’s goal is to create domestic battery production all around the world, and the company is currently building its first cell factory in the UK.

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Charged

AUGUST 26, 2020

Mercedes-Benz and Contemporary Amperex Technology ( CATL ) are collaborating to create new battery technology for the high-volume electrification of Mercedes vehicles. The carmaker is accelerating its Electric First strategy, and plans to use carbon-neutral battery cells, modules and systems supplied by CATL. Source: Daimler.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing rising levels of offshore wind and other renewable power in the years to come. In New York City, the biggest battery is the 4.8

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Charged

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The company will use the funds for initial planning of a large-scale battery materials plant. Elkem’s Northern Recharge project aims to supply the fast-growing battery industry, while making the production process greener, with lower CO 2 emissions. Elkem expects graphite demand to increase more than tenfold between now and 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

Scottish Renewables and the British Hydropower Association have written a joint letter to the Prime Minister calling on the UK Government to urgently support the deployment of long-duration electricity storage, including pumped storage hydro (PSH). The Cruachan pumped storage hydro facility, Argyll and Bute (image credit: Scottish Power).

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 31, 2020

Batteries are another option but the technology is still emerging and won’t meet all long-duration needs. The best option of today and tomorrow is the nation’s first renewable resource — hydropower — a flexible and reliable clean resource that helps to integrate other renewables onto the grid.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Creating a circular European battery industry Summary - Northvolt has partnered with Hydro to establish a first-of-its-kind battery recycling facility. Up to 90% of batteries can be effectively recycled, and up to 95% of precious metals of nickel, manganese and cobalt recovered for reuse. Brace yourself. Recycling is coming.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Creating a circular European battery industry Summary - Northvolt has partnered with Hydro to establish a first-of-its-kind battery recycling facility. Up to 90% of batteries can be effectively recycled, and up to 95% of precious metals of nickel, manganese and cobalt recovered for reuse. Brace yourself. Recycling is coming.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 27, 2021

Long-duration iron flow battery manufacturer ESS Inc announced a new contract with Chilean utility, Edelaysen, a GRUPO SAESA company, to provide a flow battery system to support a renewable energy-based microgrid in Chile. Edelaysen will deploy ESS Inc.’s In addition, the equivalent of 12 years of diesel emissions (8.8

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Global Renewable News

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Highlights Confirmed 77 MW electricity block for NMG's Phase-2 Bécancour Battery Material Plant to support production of carbon-neutral active anode material for the battery/EV market.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

And last: What about all that nice, flat water in hydropower reservoirs? Hydropower Potential from Existing Non-powered Dams. KORE Power is building the first large-scale battery cell manufacturing facility in the U.S. Could we float solar panels on it? The Department of Energy says we could. Based in the U.S.,

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

An introduction to the battery company NorthVolt and its strategy Summary - NortVolt, led by Tesla-Veteran Peter Carlsson, is building the very first European battery gigafactory. What is NorthVolt’s strategy to create a European battery power basis? He came back to build his own battery factory. million jobs, vulnerable.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 8, 2024

Hydropower and gas are supposed to make up for most of the the shortfall in solar energy. Battery storage in the US has grown from.6 As an alternative to gas peaker plants, pumped hydropower storage is set to make up for 42 percent of the shortfall in solar energy during the eclipse. Put simply: more gas, more pollution.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Recent years have seen energy storage installations dominated by lithium-ion battery technology around the world. This week, the International Hydropower Association and the U.S. Because of this, “It isn’t easy to build new projects,” said Alejandro Moreno, director of hydropower and marine energy at U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

With several lithium-ion battery installations to shift solar generation into later parts of the day, Kauai has gone for as long as nine hours in a day on entirely renewable electricity production. A small battery next to the solar facility will keep the pumps running smoothly when clouds are blocking the sun.

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Global Renewable News

JUNE 12, 2023

TWAICE, the leading provider of battery analytics software, announced that VERBUND, Austria's leading energy company and one of the largest producers of hydropower in Europe, successfully used the.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

After losing out on an early opportunity to build New York state's biggest battery, the owner of New York City's biggest power plant is taking steps to import renewable electricity generated upstate. A setback for battery plan. But the Ravenswood battery project is still in search of a contract to anchor the business case.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

operated with an average monthly round-trip efficiency of 79%, and the utility-scale battery fleet operated at 82%, according to 2019 data from the U.S. In recent years, utility-scale battery capacity has grown rapidly as costs have decreased. Batteries have become the second-largest source of electricity storage.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The conditions include: Low solar energy and battery energy storage system costs – A decrease in both solar energy and battery energy storage technologies could enable an increase in the solar capacity installation by 55% and storage capacity deployment by 79%.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 29, 2019

Hydro Tasmania says it is accelerating detailed investigation of three key opportunities for pumped storage hydro development in the state as part of the Battery of the Nation initiative.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Last year the European Patent Office and the International Energy Agency published a detailed report on innovation in batteries and electricity storage. Based on their analysis of patenting activity, the report suggests that battery storage is the main area of innovation, and in particular lithium-ion batteries [1].

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Seminoe Pumped Storage will be the ideal ‘battery’ for Wyoming wind energy, and it will allow more efficient use of new transmission delivering that wind to market,” notes Matthew Shapiro, chief executive officer of rPlus Hydro. The proposed project will help to address energy storage needs in the Western U.S.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As a result, the Megawatt Charging System (MCS), a charging system for large battery electric vehicles, is now being developed. MCS is best suited to enable rapid charging of batteries when they are operating out of range of their home base; in other words, a BEV version of a stop-and-fill forecourt.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 13, 2022

An old Kentucky coal mine will soon be turned into a pumped hydro “water battery” in an ambitious renewable clean energy scheme. Hydropower developer Rye Development is transforming a strip mine in southeastern Kentucky’s Bell County into the Lewis Ridge pumped storage project. Read the original:Â .

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 18, 2021

“It’s not going to win against batteries, even at this stage.” To reach Europe's ambitious carbon reduction goals, “we will need greater investment in hydropower projects in Spain and all across the continent,” said Will Henley, head of communications at the International Hydropower Association, in an email.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

Drax said the new plant could be operational by 2030, providing critical stability services to the grid by acting like a "giant water battery" that can store excess power at times of peak generation and dispatch it to the grid at times of peak demand.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The bilingual multi-purpose facility uses a mix of energy sources such as solar panels, an air source heat pump, battery storage and insulation to reduce its dependence on the grid. Community organisation, Aros An Rubha scooped the Best Community Project Award for revitalising the former Knock School on the Isle of Lewis.

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Charged

JUNE 2, 2021

Contrary to popular belief, EV drivers don’t have to subsist on kale and granola—now you can have a Slurpee and a microwaved burrito while topping up your battery pack. In Virginia, 150 stores are using hydropower, and 300 Florida stores are powered by solar energy. “7?Eleven The iconic American convenience store chain 7?Eleven

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 6, 2022

SN Aboitiz Power Group (SNAP), a joint venture between Scatec and AboitizPower (AP), has made the final investment decision for the 20MW battery energy storage system (BESS) project. The project will be located at the Magat hydropower plant in Ramon, Isabela in the Philippines. EPC and financing.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 21, 2021

Hydropower sits at the nexus of energy and water, enabling hydropower projects to be unique catalysts for positive change. If designed with both energy and water in mind, hydropower projects can increase reliable renewable generation and deliver positive co-benefits for river ecosystems and water users. What is keeping the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

ABB’s Power Grids unit earned about $10 billion in annual revenues last year from its businesses ranging from high-voltage transmission systems and transformers to distribution grid controls and battery systems.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 28, 2024

Clean and sustainable transition of energy and transport sectors towards climate neutrality R&I activities will develop more performant, safe, affordable, sustainable and circular battery technologies and other storage solutions according to sectoral needs.

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