Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

As these bold commitments trickle down to the state and local level, specific policies and roadmaps will emerge to accelerate the deployment of wind, solar and energy storage technology. These policies and roadmaps will not be developed in a vacuum. Image credit: ESS Inc.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 30, 2023

A fire at an energy storage system in Warwick burned for multiple days in June, a battery fire at a solar farm in Jefferson County raised concerns of possible air contamination in July, and an energy storage system at an East Hampton substation caught fire in July.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Government and grid operators in the Netherlands are taking new, urgent measures to ensure sufficient space on the Dutch power grid as demand continues to surge in the compact country. Stated Dutch Minister for climate and energy policy, Rob Jetten: “Households and companies are becoming more sustainable at a record pace.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Duke will analyze the flows of energy between EV batteries and the power grid, and will work with Ford and other vehicle manufacturers to study the functionality of bidirectional charging.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The preferred system plan portfolio differs from one previously adopted by including more solar and battery storage, as well as new long-duration storage, out-of-state wind, and offshore wind resources. The decision said the process to include offshore wind in IRP capacity expansion models began in early 2020 and is due to wrap up in 2022.

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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

MARCH 22, 2024

“The energy storage industry continues its incredible growth trajectory, with a record quarter helping drive home a banner year for the technology,” said John Hensley, ACP’s vice president of Markets and Policy Analysis. These additions bring with them critical benefits to our power grid. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 22, 2024

“The energy storage industry continues its incredible growth trajectory, with a record quarter helping drive home a banner year for the technology,” said John Hensley, ACP’s vice president of Markets and Policy Analysis. These additions bring with them critical benefits to our power grid. Have you read?

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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. Pull Quote.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The global battery market is set to grow into a massive industry in the next decade, but policymakers today will decide which regions benefit the most in future, explain McKinsey's Nicolò Campagnol, Alexander Pfeiffer, and Christer Tryggestad. Winning companies will be those that act in the next few years.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Sunrun has been selected to build Puerto Rico’s first Virtual Power Plant (VPP) by the island’s electric utility provider. Sunrun said it will aggregate the solar and battery storage systems of more than 7,000 customers to form the 17MW VPP. The company is aiming to dispatch the VPP in 2024. Systems provided a combined 3.4

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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

Elections in the EU and the US have our industry waiting with bated breath to see the next guard of political agendas take the scene and usher in policy updates – all at a critical time as 2025 and 2030 deadlines for our planet approach. The timing of Wood Mackenzie’s analysis is apt. No small numbers.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 19, 2020

Wood Mackenzie expects that North America could have nearly 650 gigawatt-hours of EV battery capacity by 2030, up from 97.5 De-risking grid edge investment. Interconnection requirements, policies and codes across utility territories, standards bodies and governments are a limiting factor that keeps from achieving standardization.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

The report also provides an overview of how data centres can play a role in helping integrate renewables into European electricity grids. engaging in demand response by reducing data centre power consumption to better match the current local supply of renewables.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Local energy resources have the potential to equitably distribute the benefits of clean energy in a way that provides jobs, resilience and savings to communities left out of our century-old electricity grid.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The preferred system plan portfolio differs from one previously adopted by including more solar and battery storage, as well as new long-duration storage, out-of-state wind, and offshore wind resources. The decision said the process to include offshore wind in IRP capacity expansion models began in early 2020 and is due to wrap up in 2022.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 27, 2024

The first tranche of projects to be offered earlier grid access comprises around 50% battery storage, 40% solar generation and 10% battery/solar hybrid projects. Have you read: Can the power grid save Europe’s bid in the race to net zero? SSEN expects the first of these projects to connect in mid-April.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Centrality of the grid Whether it is the spiralling demand for more electricity or the universal initiative to shift to renewable energy, a crucial element in this complex matrix is the power grid. The concerted push to promote clean energy must be underpinned by state-of-the-art power grids.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

As energy policy and politics shift globally, business flexibility will be a necessity for the success of the energy transition. Well, not quite, because anyone who has even briefly scanned the news over the last few months will have noted the shift in the political mood music around energy policy across the world.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

“Then the questions become how to achieve the 100 percent renewable future everyone is talking about without causing disturbances in the grid and effectively managing solar ramp rates and generation optimization.” ” The same 100 percent renewable targets are also achievable on much larger grids. Beyond pilot projects.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Koch Industries may be best known to clean energy and environmental advocates as the oil and gas, chemicals and paper giant led by Charles Koch, who with his now-deceased brother David Koch funded a network of groups promoting conservative and libertarian public policies.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2021

The idea of utility-owned technology serving as a control point for customer-owned DERs may well spark suspicion from residential solar and storage providers, which are used to battling with utilities over net metering tariffs, interconnection policies and other aspects of how their systems interact with the power grids they’re connected to.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 8, 2023

Climate action is increasingly being delivered through ambitious industrial policy, such as America’s Inflation Reduction Act , which is also focused on bringing supply chains back home, and strengthening trade ties with allies and like-minded nations. In other words, combining our natural resource wealth with smart industrial policy.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 8, 2022

Individual contributions towards net zero through self-sufficiency Buddon explained an environmental focus over V2G: “Potentially one’s house or office or clinic can be supported by a range of electric vehicles utilising their batteries as a mobile power source for a significant amount of time.” Enhanced battery management.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2023

With a power grid that has been notoriously unreliable in the past, India’s goal to transform formerly passive consumers into prosumers would seem an uphill battle. According to the EIA’s Stated Policies Scenario (STEPS), India will have 140 GW of battery capacity by 2040, the largest portfolio of batteries of any country in the world.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The systems involve electric-powered vehicles communicating with the power grid to sell demand response services, usually overseen by a third party, such as energy retailers or aggregators. The new service features Nissan-unique energy management technology that controls the charging and discharging of EV batteries.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Our analysis also explores the costs of using battery storage to complement wind and solar power, finding that, even with storage included, both are still highly cost-competitive. For starters, Alberta and Ontario are in the midst of transforming their power grids. These results are important for a few reasons.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Instead, the greatest expansion in energy storage over the last decade has been in batteries. There has also been growth in the number of energy storage projects outside of lithium-ion batteries, such as compressed air energy storage and flywheel storage. Gretchen Whitmer and the MPSC of the MI Power Grid initiative.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Other research and development opportunities identified include innovation in energy storage, alternative biofuels, electric vehicle batteries, and advanced wind and solar power. We will be tracking future funding announcements under this initiative.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology promises to be a true win-win: a powerful grid balancing resource for utilities and a source of incremental income for EV owners ( electric school buses seem to be an ideal use case).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

UK's largest smart grid trial saw 200 homes and businesses fitted with solar panels and batteries trade electricity to offer local grid flexibility. With the right policy actions by the Government, we believe that the UK can lead the world in creating solutions to integrate greater levels of renewables onto our energy systems.".

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Here are four areas where regulations and policy could make a difference in Michigan. The virtual power plant business model. Virtual power plant projects have been operating in places like California and New England for some time, but such projects have been scarce in many parts of the country, including the Midwest.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. Later this year, the developer intends to build a plant in California to make hydrogen from waste for transportation fuel or for the power grid; it is negotiating with a healthcare provider to supply the trash. locations in 2021.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at the reported sale of German virtual power plant and battery energy storage developer sonnen by Shell as a part of its retail divestment strategy. When numerous residential battery storage systems connect, something big happens. Shell has declined to comment. billion ($10.4

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CleanTech Alliance

JULY 14, 2021

In June 2021, the Pacific Northwest suffered the worst heat wave in recorded history. Since record keeping began in 1894, only three days have ever recorded a temperature of over 100° F, but June 2021 had three consecutive days of temperatures over 100° F. The unprecedented heat wave devastated crops, with the U.S. Department of […].

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Also on the radar are announcements of an integrated platform for interconnector-based energy trading between the UK and Netherlands as well as an insurance policy partnership for Li-Ion battery products. Image courtesy Great Power. Great Power’s battery cells have been extensively evaluated and are being thoroughly validated.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Over nine hundred companies of production chain took part in the event, including industrial executive institutes, scientific research organizations, power grid enterprises, power generation firms, system assembly providers and financial institutes.

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