Andy Colthorpe

October 20, 2021
Further details of a 200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) contract awarded to New HOrizons Ahead (NHOA) in Australia have been revealed. 
October 19, 2021
Special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Novus Capital Corporation II chose to merge with novel gravity and kinetic energy-based storage Energy Vault after receiving target proposals from more than 100 different firms. 
October 19, 2021
Huawei Digital Power has said it will supply battery energy storage system (BESS) technology to what is thought to be the world’s largest off-grid energy storage project to date. 
October 19, 2021
Western Australia’s state-owned electricity network operator is tendering for a “disconnected microgrid” project which could be replicated if successful, to cost-effectively give rural communities reliable and safe power supplies.
October 18, 2021
Virtual power plant (VPP) company Swell Energy and battery storage provider sonnen have both announced deals that will turn thousands of residential solar-powered energy storage systems into valuable resources for their local grid network.
October 18, 2021
Andy Colthorpe speaks to Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, one of the original inventors of the vanadium redox flow battery, about the origins of the technology and its progression.
October 18, 2021
Power distribution company WEL Networks and renewables developer Infratec are in the final stages of assessment for what will be New Zealand’s first utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS). 
October 18, 2021
A battery energy storage system (BESS) will be retrofitted to a utility-scale solar PV power plant in Vietnam, in a pilot project aimed at supporting the spread of renewable energy in the country while reducing power losses. 
October 15, 2021
AutoGrid has raised US$83.5 million in funding to scale up its virtual power plant (VPP) platform for distributed energy resources (DER) and Leap has raised US$33.5 million to scale and develop its DER software solution.
October 15, 2021
A pilot tender for 1,000MWh of battery storage is being readied for launch by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI).

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