GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Two more utilities in Arizona and Colorado are moving to accelerate closure of coal plants and replace them with renewable energy backed by batteries, joining a broader push in both states to shift to more cost-effective clean energy options even in the absence of state mandates. At the same time, the plan would see TEP adding 1.7

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. The natural gas conundrum.

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Charged

MARCH 30, 2021

On the other hand, Mr. Musk has also implied that Semi deliveries are being held up by a lack of sufficient battery cells— most recently in a tweet in which he said Tesla was “cell-constrained right now.”. Soon thereafter, Tesla indicated that some deliveries to customers would take place this year.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 11, 2022

Battery storage is having its moment in the sun. Energy Information Administration said that when it totals up the numbers for 2021, it expects they will show that battery storage capacity grew by 4.5 Vistra says the facility, which uses technology from LG Energy Solution, is the largest lithium-ion battery storage system in the world.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Companies interested in this process cover a range of technologies, including pumped hydro, gravity-based, compressed air and flow batteries, as well as current market leader lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion batteries have absolutely dominated new storage construction in recent years. In operation by 2026.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2019

If built as described, this project would mark a milestone for the exotic technologies challenging mass-market lithium-ion batteries for longer duration grid storage. Battery plants have begun supplying several hours of power in certain markets, but they are not economic for storing days or weeks of renewable power.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Many startups tackling energy storage breakthroughs have looked to batteries and other electrochemical devices. This apparatus, in theory, allows for storing power economically on much longer timescales than is feasible with the lithium-ion batteries prevalent today. These companies anticipate a market that does not yet exist.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When Canada’s carbon price is also included, both wind and solar are significantly cheaper than natural gas already today. Both find wind and solar to be cost-competitive with natural gas-fired electricity in the U.S. Analyses for the U.S. from Lazard and the Energy Information Administration show similar results.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2019

Jaramillo, who previously built Tesla's energy storage program, teamed up with MIT professor and prolific battery inventor Yet-Ming Chiang and Aquion alum Ted Wiley to found the company last year, with the goal of creating a product to make renewable energy fully dispatchable. Market for baseload renewables coming soon. Scaling up.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 7, 2020

Minnesota utility Great River Energy confirmed Thursday that it will pilot Form's technology, identified for the first time as an "aqueous air" battery system. After comparing cheap lithium-ion storage, different versions of Form's technology and other options, the conclusion reached was 150-hour storage.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

From alkaline batteries for small electronics to lithium-ion batteries for cars and laptops, most people already use batteries in many aspects of their daily lives. Right now there are very few such batteries in use. Batteries work by creating a chemical reaction that produces a flow of electrical current.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 28, 2022

In the era of artificial intelligence, the demand growth of the natural gas consumption market in China is bound to drive the continuous and rapid growth of the smart gas meters market. The overall market size will reach 60 billion Yuan in the future on the basis of the estimation that 60% of households in China use natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The newly created independent power producer has already acquired a portfolio of small solar projects in the Pacific Northwest, but it’s primarily targeting California and Texas for a much bigger push into lithium-ion battery energy storage systems, CEO Steve Vavrik said in an interview.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

million electric and 2 million natural gas customers spread across eight states, are moving toward their own clean-energy and zero-carbon mandates. As for other forms of energy storage, Xcel in Colorado has already contracted for hundreds of megawatts of lithium-ion batteries alongside wind and solar power projects.

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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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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Take the Intermountain Power Project , the coal-fired power plant in Utah converting to turbines that will use natural gas blended with 30 percent hydrogen, a proportion that will rise to 100 percent hydrogen over the coming decades. does have a few projects taking steps toward proving out the concept.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 26, 2023

In response to the federal government’s new plan to prepare workers for the energy transition , Premier Danielle Smith replied , “We are not going to be shutting down our oil and natural gas industry. The problem is that, while such words may pay lip service to Albertan oil and gas workers, they don’t serve them in reality.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

A vital part of modern manufacturing, sulphuric acid is required for the production of phosphorus fertilisers that help feed the world, and for extracting rare metals from ores essential to the rapidly required green economy transition, like cobalt and nickel used in high-performance Li-ion batteries.

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Charged

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Tesla is also slated to supply “electric truck charging infrastructure, a large-scale solar PV system, and two energy storage systems for facility peak shaving and heavy-duty electric truck charging,” according to PepsiCo’s filing with Valley Air.

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Charged

MAY 10, 2022

The latest spurious sensation was a natural gas-powered bus that caught fire in Italy— a video of the catastrophic conflagration was posted online, and within hours, it had travelled around the world and back again, falsely described as an EV fire. False or misleading posts about EV fires flood the internet on a daily basis.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

California regulators have allowed utilities to replace capacity from the closed San Onofre nuclear power plant with new gas-fired peaker plants, though they also required Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric to seek out batteries, energy efficiency and demand response to meet part of the shortfall.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

The plan anticipates 8,873 megawatts of batteries, the technology that dominates the energy storage market today. That’s many times over the national cumulative installed battery capacity that's now installed. Some of them tackle storage through a manufactured product, like the flow battery companies.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 30, 2021

MW/625-kWh lithium-ion battery storage, the microgrid has approximately 5-MW total capacity with provisions to add additional renewables, including more solar and renewable natural gas. The microgrid incorporates solar energy generation and battery storage to provide Tasteful Selections a pathway to net zero carbon.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 1, 2020

The primary culprits that add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere are the coal, oil, and natural gas — the fossil fuels — we consume for energy. There are two drivers behind coal’s decline: Natural gas and renewables. Low natural gas prices have made it economically attractive to shift to natural gas for baseload power.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some of those pathways move more dramatically toward closing coal plants or halting new natural gas power plants. This difference is mainly due to the Southeast’s reliance on electricity rather than natural gas for heating air and water in buildings, Snider explained. While most U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The next frontier goes beyond the shift from fossil fuels to renewables and moves toward different power resources working together—wind, solar, batteries and energy efficiency in many different permutations—to deliver clean energy affordably and efficiently in ways that were just theoretical only recently. The midwestern U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Biden’s plan calls for: Grid-scale storage at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries. Using renewables to produce carbon-free hydrogen at the same cost as that from shale gas. The potential demand for batteries would grow from the current 46 GWh to 600 GWh per year. trillion through 2035. The current U.S.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Multinational utility and IPP RWE has started building its first battery energy storage system (BESS) project in the Netherlands.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Mature Thermochemical technologies include steam methane reforming (SMR) which relies on natural gas as an input and coal gasification which relies on coal. There remain serious sustainability challenges to broad adoption of lithium batteries. Gas prices currently remain high compared to some overseas markets.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 14, 2021

Some ships already run on batteries, liquefied natural gas or with cleaner ship engines and / or catalytic converters. Modular drive train with battery pack. The fuel cell system has a capacity of 825 kWh and the lithium-ion battery pack of 504 kWh. Now it is time for a hydrogen-powered vessel.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 14, 2021

Some ships already run on batteries, liquefied natural gas or with cleaner ship engines and / or catalytic converters. Modular drive train with battery pack. The fuel cell system has a capacity of 825 kWh and the lithium-ion battery pack of 504 kWh. Now it is time for a hydrogen-powered vessel.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As the fossil fuel industry rages against the dying of the gas light, they continue to work to plant doubt about an economy centered around solar and wind paired with battery storage. His projections are even conservative in that they assume battery components won’t change, when of course they will. But the news gets better.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Often, the solution here is touted as more efficient use of electricity through increasingly sophisticated grid demand technologies backed by a combination of nuclear power and energy storage from batteries and pumped hydro facilities.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Batteries are another important tool in the kit, but so are air conditioners, water heaters, refrigerators, pumps, and other behind-the-meter flexible loads — not to mention electric vehicles. The Golden State is by far the biggest market for solar, behind-the-meter batteries and plug-in electric vehicles. California.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Six months after inking California’s largest single energy storage procurement, utility Southern California Edison has added another three massive utility-scale battery projects to its portfolio—plus a behind-the-meter battery project with Sunrun. The four-hour duration 2.63 utility record books. The four-hour duration 2.63

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