Smart Energy International

JULY 20, 2022

In the midst of wildfires, energy security concerns and grid reliability questions, two smart home solutions are providing respective approaches towards adaptability and resilience through smart technology. When solar production is weak the battery will discharge to support load consumption around the home.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Enphase Energy, a supplier of microinverter-based solar and battery systems, has successfully demonstrated a bidirectional EV charger that enables vehicle-to-home (V2H) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) functionality. It also allows energy generated from solar panels to be sent directly to the EV battery. Source: Enphase Energy

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Californian utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has unveiled four new microgrids with advanced remote operation capabilities and safety technologies to help enhance grid reliability.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 13, 2024

As EVs continue to proliferate and strain the power grid, two critical challenges need to be overcome: safeguarding the functionality of battery arrays and their generated data, explains Hebberly Ahatlan of Intertrust. Moreover, such battery systems can be entry points for sophisticated cyberattacks that could render a city into a blackout.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

a global clean energy storage company, has been named as the battery provider for a 34.4 The project is part of the DOE’s new $325 million LDES program which seeks to advance critical clean energy technologies, expand the adoption of renewable energy resources and strengthen America’s energy security. Redflow Ltd. ,

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

More than 30 technologies are identified as having varying levels of impact on Europe’s DSOs over the next decade, according to E.DSO’s ‘Technology radar’. At the same time, several technologies also are starting to become transformational. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Energy Market Authority (EMA) and Institute of Technology (SIT) in Singapore are funding a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) project, the largest in the country, to help ease congestion on the power grid. Findings from the test bed will provide insights into the technological, commercial and regulatory feasibility of V2G in Singapore.

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Solar Industry

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The project, one of the world’s first and largest hybrid solar and battery storage facilities, has an installed solar capacity of 540 MW and a battery storage capacity of 225 MW. The post Scatec Begins Solar, Battery Storage Production at Kenhardt Plants appeared first on Solar Industry.

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Charged

OCTOBER 18, 2023

American Battery Solutions (ABS) has signed a multi-year contract with bus manufacturer NFI Group to supply custom battery packs for NFI subsidiary New Flyer ’s newest 35-, 40- and 60-foot battery-electric transit buses. Source: American Battery Solutions

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

But as California regulators grapple with the best way to provide multi-day power backup for wildfire and blackout-prone communities, a new report says that solar and batteries can’t do the job alone. Natural gas vs. diesel vs. solar-storage.

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Charged

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Aqua Metals has developed a novel battery recycling process. 6K Energy produces sustainable materials for lithium-ion batteries. That sounds like a natural match, and in fact the two firms recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to create a sustainable circular supply chain in the US for critical battery minerals.

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Charged

MAY 16, 2022

Charging and energy management specialist FreeWire Technologies has raised $125 million in new capital from BlackRock Financial Management and other investors, including bp ventures, Riverstone Holdings, Octave Ventures and Daishin Private Equity. The company aims to deploy over 5,000 battery-integrated chargers by 2025.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 9, 2022

Honeywell and Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions (DESS) have agreed to jointly develop and deliver energy resiliency solutions to targeted U.S. Rooftop solar PV could reduce grid resilience, study finds Rethinking the energy grid: The evolution of mission-critical power. Have you read? DESS will own and manage the energy assets.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Bahamas Power and Light Company Limited (BPL) will leverage a battery energy storage system supplied and installed by Finnish firm Wärtsilä to optimize the operations of its Blue Hills Power Station in Nassau. The battery pack will provide backup energy in the event of a failure at Blue Hills Power Station. Register today!

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A new sodium battery technology shows promise for helping integrate renewable energy into the electric grid. The battery uses Earth-abundant raw materials such as aluminum and sodium.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The US Department of Defense Defense Innovation Unit will try out ‘prototype advanced energy systems’ based around LDES technologies.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Yorkshire Water is rolling out 34 remote battery powered actuators across key sites in the region, and the utility says it is already seeing benefits. The water company is working in partnership with R2M Limited to install 3S remote battery powered actuators.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2023

billion investment for 58 projects across 44 states to strengthen electric grid resilience and reliability, invest in microgrids and enable more renewable energy generation across America. It will also deploy a battery backup project that will reduce energy bills for disadvantaged communities.

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Charged

JULY 28, 2022

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and Tesla have launched a pilot program that will combine thousands of Powerwall home battery systems to create a “virtual power plant” or “distributed battery.” Tesla has invited some 25,000 PG&E customers with Powerwalls to join the program. Source: PG&E.

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AutoGrid

JULY 24, 2023

In fact, so far, 3,500 MW of load reductions have helped grids stay up and running, offering reliability services with a mix of clean technologies leveraging contributions from both commercial and industrial customers as well as individual consumers. These dispatches delivered a large amount of capacity to energy markets worldwide.

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Charged

APRIL 19, 2023

The university is reducing its electricity bill and supporting grid resilience by taking part in a special rate program developed by local utility New Hampshire Electric Cooperative (NHEC), electrification software provider Bellawatt and Fermata Energy, a developer of bidirectional EV charging platform. “V2G is working today.

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Solar Power World

MARCH 10, 2021

In many areas of the country, residential solar customers recognize the energy resiliency advantages, long-term economic benefits and environmental friendliness of solar + storage systems. But they still likely have questions on just how a solar array and battery will affect them on a personal level. “My

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2022

Our summer Sector Pitch Day explored two dimensions of the agriculture industry and featured pitches from Greentown startups working in each: Resilient Food Systems. Promethean Power Systems has developed a thermal battery technology focused on cold-storage of perishable foods, which serves over 60,000 farmers. filter scrubs CO?

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AutoGrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

One of the most energizing parts of my job is meeting with clean energy leaders to discuss where we are heading as an industry and how we can work together to achieve ambitious decarbonization, electrification, and resiliency goals. Here are a few key themes that stuck with me as we went deep on electrification, microgrids, and e-mobility.

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 30, 2020

By Kevin Mulvey, Manager of Product & Technology, Energy Toolbase The behind-the-meter energy storage market posted another year of record growth in 2019, according to Wood Mackenzie’s latest U.S. Energy Storage Monitor report.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Both projects will reduce demand on regional energy infrastructure and enable Eaton to power its manufacturing plants with more renewables and boost energy resilience for its operations, said the companies in a press release. MWh of battery storage into the facility’s onsite power generation systems.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

million) for Shanghai Electric Energy Storage Technology. Using the investment for its growth, Neara will offer “enterprise-grade, 3D network modelling technology”, they state in a release, that uses AI and machine learning to aggregate broad spectrums of data sources into one digital simulation environment.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 27, 2022

(May 17, 2022) – BMW i Ventures announced today a lead investment in the Series A-1 financing round of Mangrove Lithium, a feedstock-flexible modular platform producing battery-grade lithium hydroxide and carbonate to improve the sustainability profile of lithium. The company’s electrochemical […].

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 7, 2022

UK needs additional £14bn in annual renewables investment to meet 2050 goal Australia’s small scale RECs scheme sees record installations in 2020 Grid Resilience with Enedis, an interview with COO Antoine Jourdain. We then used a dynamical model to assess how these changes impact the resilience of power grids to catastrophic failures.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The European Commission has recommended revisions to the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) plan to enable it to make a greater contribution to the European Green Deal, REPowerEU and Green Deal Industrial Plan goals.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Planning approval has been granted to EDF Renewables UK for three grid-scale lithium-ion battery sites strategically located in Kent, Norwich and Essex. Energy storage solutions are essential for maximizing the benefits of intermittent clean energy, ensuring grid resilience, stability, and reliability.

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2022

First, what exactly is energy resilience? And why should solar installers and home improvement contractors care about resilient energy? The stats show that homeowners are seeking out renewable systems and battery storage to increase their energy resilience and protect their power supply during natural crises.

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2022

First, what exactly is energy resilience? And why should solar installers and home improvement contractors care about resilient energy? The stats show that homeowners are seeking out renewable systems and battery storage to increase their energy resilience and protect their power supply during natural crises.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Sycuan Casino Resort plans to deploy 40 Level 2 chargers, 5 DC fast chargers, and a 250 kW/560 kWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at its San Diego location. The BESS can further reduce costs and emissions by serving the chargers with cheaper energy stored in the battery instead of expensive on-peak grid power.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Power decentralization may help us tackle these 21st-century energy hurdles by creating accessible, reliable, green, and resilient energy. They provide local, interconnected energy, battery storage, and digital control capability. What is microgrid technology? Will it become the norm and not the exception in the coming years?

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

Fueled by improved economics, increased demand for resilience, and the ever-increasing integration of intermittent renewable generation, energy storage installations hit an all-time high of 522 megawatts/1,113 megawatt-hours last year. By any measure, 2019 was a breakout year for energy storage in the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2022

A combination of drones and laser technology adapted for use in the wastewater Industry is being deployed by the utility to survey sewers for potential problems by flying the drones inside them, often to parts of the network that traditional surveying methods can’t reach.

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