SolarEdge: EV acquisition ties together ‘related revolutions’ in energy and transport
Acquisition feeds into the inverter and smart energy company’s overall ‘masterplan’ to involve itself in the full gamut of distributed and clean energy market segments.
Microgrid aims to help oil major Shell accelerate distributed energy solutions
Infrastructure development and engineering company Black & Veatch has just completed a microgrid project in the US for Shell which is set to help inform the oil and gas company on its next steps into distributed energy.
Warren Buffet’s MidAmerican Energy puts in Iowa’s latest big battery project
The US state of Iowa got its first grid-scale solar-plus-storage system at the beginning of this year, and this has already been followed by the completion of another, larger battery project in the US state this week.
SECI highlights battery storage in planned renewables tender for Lakshadweep
Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) is planning to develop its own renewable energy projects at the Indian archipelago of Lakshadweep, with an eye on coupling the projects with battery energy storage.
Energy storage in India: A ‘year of action’ lies ahead of us
We asked Dr Rahul Walawalkar, executive director of the India Energy Storage Alliance, three simple questions to illuminate what was achieved in 2018 and what held the market back, if anything. We also look ahead to this year and what we might expect to see going forward.
First phase of China’s biggest flow battery put into operation by VRB Energy
VRB Energy, a maker of flow batteries headquartered in Canada and owned by a metal resources and mining company, said the first phase of a 40MWh flow battery project in China has now been commissioned.
UK gov’t seeks to relax rules for large-scale storage co-located with generation
Britain's government is seeking to remove a significant hurdle for utility-scale co-located storage sites, enabling projects with combined capacities in excess of 50MW to proceed without requiring government consent.
ROUNDUP: MA’s 0% ‘Clean Peak’, Shanghai Gigafactory 3, Flow batteries in Cali wholesale market
News in brief from around the world in the energy storage industry.
Fossil fuel costs undercut into the evening peak by AES’ Hawaii solar project
While a tranche of seven solar-plus-storage projects under proposal in Hawaii would see renewable energy make its biggest competitive play against fossil fuels in the US island state so far, a project just completed will deliver energy well into the evening at just US$0.11 per kWh.
2019: The next episode
In today’s third and final instalment of our series to welcome in 2019, we look at what our respondents are expecting to see this year, what they would like to see happen and some of the ways they will be trying to fulfil those expectations.
Shell teams up with developer Anesco on first utility-scale UK battery
UK developer and constructor of clean energy projects Anesco and Shell’s New Energies division are to partner on a utility-scale battery storage project in Norfolk, east England.
Iowa’s first large-scale PV-plus-storage project installed at university, uses flow battery
Iowa’s Maharishi University of Management has completed and powered up a new solar power plant featuring both single-axis tracking and vanadium redox flow battery energy storage.
China plans 6GW of pumped hydro to address solar and wind curtailment issues
China’s State Grid Corporation will build 6GW of pumped hydro storage as part of ongoing efforts to cut rates of wind and solar power curtailment.
Solar-plus-storage virtual power plant trial to begin in Ireland this month
Residents of Ballyferriter village on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry are to join the project this month with the installation of domestic energy storage units in 20 homes.
2019: Beyond electric dreams
In the previous instalment of this blog, we looked at how our respondents from across the energy storage industry had viewed 2018’s biggest challenges. This time out we look at what some of 2018’s biggest successes were.
Solar needs storage to compete in National Grid’s UK Capacity Market redesign
National Grid has outlined how renewables could participate in the UK's Capacity Market, unveiling technology-specific de-rating factors that range from 1–15%.