Smart Energy International

MAY 20, 2022

North Carolina-based Pine Gate Renewables has announced the signing of two separate MoUs with EnerVenue and Urban Electric Power. The solar and energy storage developer will be purchasing 2.4GWh of EnerVenue’s nickel hydrogen BESS and 4.5GWh of Urban Electric’s zinc alkaline battery systems. Courtesy of Urban Electric Power.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2024

shares his expectations for the clean energy transition in 2024. The year 2023 was a record-setting year for investment and growth in clean energy, with the International Energy Agency projecting over 500GW of new renewable capacity to come online by year-end globally. Have you read? This is not limited to the U.S.

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 22, 2021

There is no doubt that the emergence of renewable energy has revolutionized our world. This awareness has led to both governments as well as normal human beings trying to take steps to make the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. Renewable Energy: Meaning and Definition.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There is no path to deep decarbonization that doesn't involve a clean power sector. And there is no path to a clean power sector that doesn't involve deploying massive amounts of wind, solar, and lithium-ion batteries. The Interchange is brought to you by Hitachi ABB Power Grids.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Green hydrogen is both an untested and a potentially vital way for renewable-energy-powered grids to store their intermittent power for later use, not just for hours at a time, but for days, weeks or even seasons ahead. On Monday, Siemens Energy announced a U.S. green hydrogen market landscape.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 19, 2022

Engineering consulting firm Burns & McDonnell completed construction of three 10 MW/20 MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage systems in West Texas. The storage projects are designed as stand-alone energy resources to help reduce rolling blackouts and support Texas’ power grid as supply and demand fluctuates.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 16, 2021

Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Department of Energy’s (DOE) goal to reduce the cost of grid-scale, long-duration energy storage (of which pumped storage hydro is the largest source) by 90% within the decade. Energy storage technology holds great promise in the fight against climate change.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That task took on new urgency when a grid battery in Arizona exploded in 2019, seriously injuring four firefighters. Even before that accident, lithium-ion batteries have had a reputation for catching fire, most notably in the form of exploding consumer electronics. Building a fireproof lithium-ion battery.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 7, 2020

Form Energy, the stealthy, Bill Gates-backed startup, has secured its first utility deal for a novel super-long-duration energy storage technology. 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.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

PARTNERSHIPS + DEPLOYMENTS American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) started operating its lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Nevada. Energy Toolbase has a new integration with Sunstone Credit , a technology-enabled, clean-energy financing platform that helps businesses go solar.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

Grid modernisation initiatives, including the movement to new technologies such as smart grids, are spurring the demand for battery energy storage systems (BESS), according to latest research from Research and Markets. The former found that the global energy storage market will reach $73.8 billion by 2026.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Duke Energy’s options for reaching net-zero carbon by midcentury will look a lot different than those being pursued by utilities in the sun-soaked Western U.S., Duke's new IRP presents six very different pathways toward greening its energy mix over the next 15 years, all of them reaching at least 50 percent carbon reduction by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Energy storage is a rapidly growing segment of the clean energy sector, and prices are dropping fast. Yet many are still struggling to understand how to value energy storage as an investment. Storage solutions are now a growing part of this energy transition, and will represent a $150 billion industry in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Despite its clear value to the grid and to the increased integration of renewables, the 1,872-megawatt facility took four years to build and is unlikely to be replicated. Instead, the greatest expansion in energy storage over the last decade has been in batteries. Realizing energy storage's full potential.

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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. Project construction began in June 2021 and was finished in less than a year.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Successful test in Oxfordshire hailed as a major milestone in UK's quest to produce clean energy from nuclear fusion by 2040, government said. It heralded the achievement as major milestone in the UK's plans to develop a nuclear fusion power plant that can provide a new source of clean energy to the power grid within the next 20 years. "We

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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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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

Burns & McDonnell said on Monday that it was selected by LG Energy Solution and Sustainable Environmental Renewable (SER) Capital Partners to provide engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services for three 10-MW/20-MWh lithium-ion, stand-alone battery energy storage systems.

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AutoGrid

JULY 5, 2023

What’s driving the deployment of utility-scale energy storage assets? We will focus on the opportunities for “utility-scale” or “grid-scale” energy storage in this blog. Grid-Scale Batteries Grid-scale energy storage systems include batteries, flywheels, pumped hydro, and compressed air energy storage.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 11, 2021

The first phase of planning work is underway on a $75 million research and development center focused on accelerating development and deployment of long-duration, low-cost energy storage. The GSL will speed up the process considerably by doing the work needed to develop and deploy new grid storage technologies.”. 26-28 in Dallas.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 31, 2022

The battery was installed at a substation in Bonita, California, in 2017 following a Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2015 by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation and the California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The clean tech revolution will see battery technologies play a critical role in our cars, our trucks, our power grid, our buildings, and even our ferries. Britishvolt - the company behind plans to build a gigafactory in Northumberland - has inked a deal with mining giant Glencore to develop a lithium-ion battery plant in Kent.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Market reforms needed to stimulate investment in projects capable of storing electricity for four hours or longer, according to Aurora Energy Research. LDES provides a valuable contribution to system security and operability in a high renewables energy system," he said. "In

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at a successful Series B financing round of $20 million for a US-based platform, Amperon, that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to unlock value from grid data and enhance electricity forecasting. This will play a key role as the platform expands.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

New BloombergNEF analysis charts the rising cost pressures faced by the global stationary energy storage market. That is the core conclusion of recent analysis from BloombergNEF, which estimates the average price of a four-hour turnkey energy storage system rose to $324/kWh in 2022 - a 27 per cent increase from the previous year.

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Charged

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The battery pack incorporates the latest lithium titanate (LTO) technology, which increases energy density, allows for faster charging and enables pure electric (engine-off) extended range capability. The company says the new package decreases installation complexity, reduces maintenance expense and increases uptime.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 8, 2023

As we find ourselves rapidly entering the clean energy transition, and as the superpower economies of the United States and the European Union pivot hard toward a net-zero 2050, an opportunity to transition our own natural resource sectors has emerged. This post was co-authored by Rachel Doran and originally appeared on The Hill Times.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 15, 2021

AutoGrid Announces $85 Million Funding Round to Accelerate Energy Transition. During Summer of 2021, AutoGrid VPPs were dispatched 1,800 times, delivering over 5,000 MW of capacity and 37,000 MWh of energy when the electricity grid was most stressed. Harnessing the Power of AI. Amit Narayan.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

It is not just a theoretical question for the future, says Risto Paldanius, director of business development for Wärtsilä’s Energy Storage and Optimization, business unit, and a long-time attendee of the conference. The desire to transition to more renewables also had to be balanced with grid stability.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 20, 2021

Supported by DOE’s Office of Electricity, the invention, called IntelliVent , is designed to be installed in cabinet-style battery enclosures, which are becoming common for stationary grid energy storage, said PNNL. The April 2019 incident in Arizona at an energy storage facility left four firefighters injured, two seriously.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2021

Minerals such as lithium and copper are critical for EVs and renewables, but a lack of investment and policy clarity risks undermining the burgeoning market. The expansion of electricity networks to support the shift towards EVs and heat pumps, as well as enhance energy access, also requires a huge increase in copper and cobalt supplies.

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Energy Refuge

APRIL 7, 2020

Street lights, depending on the society or community in which they are located, can be powered by different forms of energy sources including fuel, gas or solar. Solar street lights are those powered by energy from the sun through solar panels that are either mounted on the lighting pole or embedded into it. The Lights.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

Between video calls, collaboration applications and streaming services, data centers are working overdrive - proving why energy efficiency matters more than ever. Less detailed analyses have predicted rapid growth in data center energy use, but without fully considering the historical efficiency progress made by the industry.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Last week’s article focused on the nine key elements of Joe Biden’s plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice. power sector by 2035. million new energy efficient homes.”. million new energy efficient homes.”. Energy efficiency will help, but in 2019 the U.S. power grid by 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

design at its nearby Hornsdale plant, which is billed as the world’s largest lithium-ion battery. France’s Neoen SA has outlined plans to build a giant renewables complex in South Australia, including battery storage with up to nine times more capacity than the Tesla Inc.

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