California community energy group signs PPA for 50MW / 200MWh solar-plus-storage project
A long-term power purchase agreement has been signed for the output of a 50MW solar farm with 200MWh of battery storage, by Desert Community Energy, one of several Community Choice Aggregator (CCA) energy suppliers in California.
VIDEO: Ireland’s energy storage market needs in focus
Experts Frank Burke from the Irish Energy Storage Association and Bernice Doyle of Statkraft Ireland talk about the growing need for energy storage, how the market has rapidly developed so far and what it needs to look like to achieve a stable, decarbonised and secure energy system on the island of Ireland.
VIDEO: De-risk, monetise your energy storage assets with leading technologies - Americas edition
Energy-Storage.news was delighted to host a sponsored webinar with Honeywell Process Solutions looking at how technology, combined with world-class performance guarantees, can help de-risk and monetise energy storage assets across the Americas.
Poland adapts energy policy to ‘give green light to development of energy storage’
Policymakers in Poland have removed legal and regulatory barriers to the development of an energy storage industry based in the European country.
Preventing thermal runaway in lithium-ion energy storage systems
Safely managing the use of lithium-ion batteries in energy storage systems (ESS) should be priority number one for the industry. In this exclusive Guest Blog, Johnson Controls' industry relations fellow Alan Elder, with over four decades of experience in the field of gaseous fire suppression systems and Derek Sandahl, product manager for the company's engineered fire suppression products, talk about the best ways to achieve prevention of fire incidents stemming from thermal runaway in lithium cells.
Iron flow battery maker ESS Inc using NASDAQ-listed SPAC to go public
Iron electrolyte flow battery company ESS Inc has become the latest energy storage industry player to target public listing of its stock, announcing a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
Approval for 185MW / 565MWh ESS project in Hawaii despite ‘fossil fuel charging’ concerns
Approval has been granted — with significant conditions attached — for a large-scale standalone battery storage project designed to help the Hawaiian island of Oahu overcome energy reliability and supply concerns as a coal power plant retires.
Vanadium producer Largo prepares 1.4GWh of flow battery stack manufacturing capacity
Largo Resources, a vertically-integrated vanadium supplier launching its own line of redox flow batteries for energy storage, is establishing 1.4GWh of annual battery stack manufacturing capacity.
Contract to deliver solar-storage microgrid at Egypt goldmine awarded to juwi
German developer and EPC contractor juwi has secured a deal to design, supply and build a solar-storage hybrid project at an off-grid gold mine in Egypt.
UK solar investor Foresight Solar Fund makes first battery storage project acquisition
Foresight Solar Fund, a UK-based investment company with over a gigawatt of solar PV assets in its portfolio, has made its first move into the battery storage space.
VIDEO: Optimal strategies for making money from battery storage in the US
A panel of leading developers, technology and service providers and the finance community discuss the economic opportunities — and challenges — of deploying and operating front-of-the-meter battery storage in the US.
Google gets round-the-clock renewable energy at Virginia data centres with help of energy storage
Google will procure energy from a US$600 million portfolio of renewables and energy storage assets specially-designed to enable the search engine company’s data centres in Virginia to run on 90% carbon-free electricity.
Retrofit and community energy projects to add 1,200MWh of battery capacity to California grid
Mitsubishi Power Americas and Powin Energy have been appointed to retrofit 640MWh of batteries to solar PV plants in California, while a community energy group in the state has just signed a power purchase agreement for a 100MW solar plant with 150MW / 600MWh of storage.
Solar-plus-storage projects win 258MW of capacity in Germany’s latest renewable energy auction
Germany’s second ‘Innovation Tender’ for clean energy projects combining different technologies has awarded 258MW of capacity to solar-plus-storage across 18 bids.
US DOI gives green light to 350MW/1,400MWh energy storage project in California
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has given the green light to the construction of a utility-scale solar-plus-storage project on public land in California.
Talen Energy puts ‘Giga-scale’ battery deployments at heart of transition away from coal
Talen Energy Corporation, a US power and infrastructure development group with 13GW of mostly fossil fuel assets in its portfolio to date has said that it is developing a gigawatt of battery storage projects.