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Expansion plan to take world’s biggest battery storage project to 3GWh capacity

Plans to nearly double the output and capacity of the world’s biggest battery energy storage system (BESS) project to date have been announced by its owner, Vistra Energy. 

PODCAST: Solar and energy storage for everyone, sustainability, net metering and long-duration

The year has gotten off to a frenetic start, with plenty of news from the global solar and energy storage sectors to digest on the January 2022 episode of the Solar Media Podcast.

Why Goldman Sachs thinks advanced compressed air is worthy of US$250m investment

Hydrostor CEO Curtis VanWalleghem talks advanced compressed air energy storage and how Goldman Sachs Asset Management came to invest US$250m in his company.

Make your BESS ready for the Smart Grid

Battery storage system integrators often have to network components from different industrial sectors and then connect them to higher-level control systems. HMS Networks’ Martin Matt discusses how to solve the associated challenges.

Stopping thermal runaway six minutes before it starts

Steve Kenny, general manager for Advanced Fire Detection at Honeywell Building Technologies talks about why the detection of off-gases is an important line of defence.

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Lithium-ion battery storage inside LS Power's 250MW / 250MWh Gateway project in California, part of REV Renewables' existing portfolio. Image: PR Newsfoto / LS Power.
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Eight-hour lithium-ion project wins in California long-duration energy storage procurement

January 27, 2022
An eight-hour duration lithium-ion battery project has become the first long-duration energy storage resource selected by a group of non-profit energy suppliers in California. 
Fluence's Kabankalan project, Negros Occidental, Philippines. Image: Philippines.
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Fluence’s first Philippines project in 470MW battery storage portfolio enters commercial operation 

January 27, 2022
In the Philippines, Fluence has brought into commercial operation the first project in an order totalling nearly half a gigawatt, for vertically-integrated power company SMC Global Power Holdings (SMCGPH).
GlidePath's Prospect project, brought online in 2019, was one of the first projects of its kind in Texas' ERCOT market. Image: GlidePath.
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Quinbrook subsidiary GlidePath breaks ground on 50MW/50MWh Texas battery project

January 26, 2022
Energy storage asset developer and owner GlidePath has begun construction of a 50MW/50MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Texas.
A Stem Inc commercial and industrial (C&I) battery storage installation. Image: Stem Inc.
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Stem, developer NineDot putting 110MWh+ of battery storage into New York ‘Value Stack’ programme

January 26, 2022
Stem Inc has signed a deal for over 110MWh of front-of-meter battery storage systems, as well as related services and software which will enable them to participate in New York’s Value of Distributed Energy Resources (VDER) programme. 
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Manufacturers Powin Energy, KORE Power bringing ESS supply chain closer to US demand

January 26, 2022
Deals to establish manufacturing and supply of energy storage system (ESS) solutions and components closer to where demand is in the North American market have been signed by Powin Energy and KORE Power.
Rendering of how Gemini Solar Project, which Primergy is already building in Nevada, will look. Image: Primergy.
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Approval in Nevada for large-scale solar-plus-storage projects to replace coal

January 25, 2022
Two clean energy projects aimed at replacing a retiring Nevada coal power plant look set to go ahead, with their sale to utility NV Energy been given final approval from regulators.
Rendering of the Edwards Sanborn project in Kern County, California. The site includes separately utilised standalone battery storage and solar-plus-storage facilities Image: Terra-Gen / CPA.
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California utility PG&E proposes 1.6GW/6.4GWh of new battery storage across nine projects

January 25, 2022
Plans to procure energy from nine large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in California have been announced by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), one of the state’s three main investor-owned utilities.
Rendering of the microgrid Sungrow and KarmSolar are building in the Bahariya Oasis, Egypt. Image: Sungrow.
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ROUNDUP: ‘Bring your own battery’ Florida study, Microgrid for Egypt poultry co, Helsinki data centre batteries join electricity market

January 24, 2022
News in brief from around the world in energy storage.
The companies have exceeded their target of agreeing to co-developing 750MW of solar projects in Italy. Image: Powertis.
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Aquila Capital co-developing Italian clean energy portfolio including 90MW energy storage

January 24, 2022
Spanish solar company Soltec Power Holdings, through its subsidiary Powertis, has sold a controlling stake in 421MW of its solar PV projects and 90MW of energy storage in Italy to German investment firm Aquila Capital under a co-development agreement.
The capacity of Zinc8's zinc-air battery cell can be increased simply by scaling up the zinc storage tank. Image: Zinc8.
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NYSERDA trials long-duration zinc battery storage at community apartments in New York City

January 24, 2022
A 100kW/1.5MWh zinc-based battery energy storage system (BESS) will be installed at a 32-building housing development in Queens, New York, supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). 

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Fluence’s first Philippines project in 470MW battery storage portfolio enters commercial operation 

Quinbrook subsidiary GlidePath breaks ground on 50MW/50MWh Texas battery project

Stem, developer NineDot putting 110MWh+ of battery storage into New York ‘Value Stack’ programme

Manufacturers Powin Energy, KORE Power bringing ESS supply chain closer to US demand

Approval in Nevada for large-scale solar-plus-storage projects to replace coal

Expansion plan to take world’s biggest battery storage project to 3GWh capacity

Grid Scale

Eight-hour lithium-ion project wins in California long-duration energy storage procurement

January 27, 2022

Fluence’s first Philippines project in 470MW battery storage portfolio enters commercial operation 

January 27, 2022

Quinbrook subsidiary GlidePath breaks ground on 50MW/50MWh Texas battery project

January 26, 2022

Stem, developer NineDot putting 110MWh+ of battery storage into New York ‘Value Stack’ programme

January 26, 2022

Commercial

ROUNDUP: ‘Bring your own battery’ Florida study, Microgrid for Egypt poultry co, Helsinki data centre batteries join electricity market

January 24, 2022

NYSERDA trials long-duration zinc battery storage at community apartments in New York City

January 24, 2022

Connecticut utilities launch 580MW aggregated Energy Storage Solutions incentives programme

January 19, 2022

Viridi Parente raises US$95m investment for ‘fail-safe’ lithium-ion battery technology

January 13, 2022

Residential

Texas community virtual power plant to use SolarEdge’s Energy Bank battery storage

January 14, 2022

Sunverge’s residential virtual power plant in Maryland is first to bid into PJM wholesale market

December 17, 2021

Virtual power plants: Enphase, Sunverge and LG in the US, Project Symphony in Australia

December 6, 2021

European households’ battery storage capacity forecast to reach 12.8GWh by 2025

November 25, 2021
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