Equity investor Blackstone buys energy-as-a-service provider NRSTor C&I
Blackstone Energy Partners, a private equity business belonging to investment firm Blackstone, has bought up NRStor C&I.
Articles tagged with: Commercial And Industrial
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Guest blog
Industrial energy storage in 2020: Fuelling job creation and the clean energy transition
Action must be taken to build up domestic battery manufacturing capacity in the U.S. to meet demand for industrial-scale energy storage systems, argues Lindsay Gorrill, CEO of KORE Power.
Eaton and Enico’s ‘all-in-one’ C&I storage solution can run on new, or 2nd life, batteries
Engineering firm Eaton and storage company Enico launch a scalable, modular and fully integrated containerised energy storage solution.
Data centre batteries: ZAF retrofits nickel-zinc solution in Atlanta
ZAF Energy Systems, a maker of nickel-zinc (NiZn) batteries which in 2019 claimed a “breakthrough in cycle life” has netted a contract to outfit a data centre in the Southern US for integrator Capitol Power Group (CPG).
Google files plan to power US$600m Vegas data centre with solar and batteries
Nevada utility NV Energy and Google are plotting a major solar-plus-storage facility outside of Las Vegas in a deal being billed as the largest battery-backed solar corporate agreement in the world.
Nordic salmon farm illustrates economic and environmental case for battery storage
A salmon farm in Norway will become more environmentally friendly with the addition of a Tesvolt-supplied battery energy storage system, reducing the run time of diesel generators onsite by up to 18 hours a day, saving on costs and working time spent on maintenance.
Mercom: Upstream battery industry got lion’s share of VC funding in H1 2019
Northvolt, the consortium looking to establish gigawatt-scale lithium battery manufacturing in Europe and Sila Nanotechnologies, a battery technology startup, were the recipients of the highest sums of venture capital (VC) funding in the first half of 2019 in the battery storage sector.
Massachusetts policy leads Stem towards 28.2MWh of solar co-located energy storage
Policy in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts favouring the use of clean energy during peak times has brought behind-the-meter energy storage company Stem Inc into the state’s utility-scale solar-plus-storage market.
RedT needs funding to go the distance with long duration ESS pipeline
Update included confirmation that cash reserves stand at around US$4.31 million, enough to continue meeting the firm's obligations until December this year.
Toyota forklifts’ lithium batteries to balance solar power at carmaker’s facilities
The scheme will tap into the energy storage units already on site, used to power TMHG’s electric forklift trucks.
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Editor's blog
What solar can really do: SolarEdge’s augmented reality demo in three scenarios
Renewable energy can truly run our world, from household to factory to farming in the fields and driving on the highways. Here’s a hands-on demonstration that uses augmented reality (AR) technology to show off distributed energy’s real-world capabilities.
Siemens to add battery storage as part of gas power plant overhaul
Siemens will swap out an old gas turbine and add a battery storage system to boost the reliability of the BASF plant.
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Analysis
Corporate takeover: commitment or compromise? Part 2
The growth potential of energy storage has drawn interest from some of the biggest names in the power business and beyond. With the trend set to continue, Andy Colthorpe explores how three recent acquisition targets are faring under new ownership. Taken from the pages of PV Tech Power Vol.19, Part 1 of this article was published on the site last week.
Turning schools into virtual power plants: Australian Labor pledges solar-plus-storage revolution
Australia’s Labor Party has pushed the solar industry into the election campaign spotlight vowing to turn thousands of schools into virtual power plants.
Exide’s Portuguese lead acid battery factory to be powered by its own PV-plus-storage
Portugal’s EDP has inked a deal for its largest PV project to date, a 3.8MWp solar-plus-storage duo it will develop for lead acid battery and storage system maker Exide Technologies.
Statkraft picks out RedT for UK push into commercial solar-plus-storage
Norwegian utility Statkraft has partnered with flow machine specialist redT on a fully-financed solar-plus-storage offering for the UK’s thriving C&I renewables market.
South Australia: SA Water picks local contractor for rapid PV-plus-storage roll-out
SA Water, which delivers water to more than one-and-a-half million people in South Australia, has picked out local contractor Enerven to execute the roll-out of PV and battery storage across 70 of its facilities in the next 18 months.
Australian gold mine will rent ‘storage-as-a-service’ to power operations
A megawatt-scale energy storage system will be rented out to power a gold mine in Western Australia by Aggreko, the mobile power solutions company which bought up energy storage provider Younicos last year.
E.On supplies and manages UK’s first battery install at major hotel chain
Premier Inn, a chain of budget and competitively priced hotels in the UK, has installed a 100kW lithium ion battery at its Gyle at Edinburgh Park hotel in the Scottish capital, claiming it to be the first 'battery-powered hotel' in Britain.
UK water utility pilots revenue-sharing battery storage projects
UK water utility Northumbrian Water is to pilot the use of battery storage units at a number of its sites under a new revenue-sharing partnership with developer Argonaut Power.
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Not only when the wind blows: How data centres can manage their energy, whatever the weather
Global shares of renewable energy are increasing, while at the same time data centres become an ever-more important part of our daily lives. Emiliano Cevenini of Vertiv looks at some ways in which renewable energy can combine with UPS and energy storage systems at data centres to offer new possibilities for energy and environmental controls.
UPS provider Vertiv uses batteries to add new revenue streams for UK offerings
Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) provider Vertiv is to use energy flexibility specialist Upside Energy’s cloud-based platform to enable its customers to provide unutilised energy to the UK electricity grid.
Lithium batteries simply the cheaper choice for UK businesses’ energy needs
The UK’s government has shied away from supporting large volumes of solar and other distributed energy technologies through subsidies, but commercial and industrial energy storage and solar-plus-storage could be a huge market opportunity in Britain and abroad.
Industrial battery-hybrid projects in emerging markets could see ‘two-year paybacks’
Using energy storage – and often renewables – could see mines, cement companies, data centres and other large industrial operations in emerging markets reduce their electricity costs drastically, the CEO of Greensmith has said.
Retail giant Amazon’s UK plans include 3.77MW Tesla battery with solar PV
Amazon has submitted plans for a 4MW rooftop solar array to be deployed on its Tilbury fulfilment centre alongside a 3.77MW Tesla battery facility to help power the site, our UK sister site Solar Power Portal has revealed exclusively.
P2P household energy trading, C&I storage for brewing beer: Hawaii keeps on going
Following news yesterday of the first grid-scale solar-plus-storage system on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, two more modestly-sized projects show the potential diversity of applications for energy storage in the US state.
Doosan Heavy delivering 70MWh industrial ESS project at Changwon facility
South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries will install a 70MWh standalone energy storage system at its own facilities in Changwon, as well as a smaller battery installation co-located with solar PV.
Convergent buys up 40MW of flywheels in New York and Pennsylvania
Convergent Energy + Power, a US-Canadian project developer which has attracted investment from the venture capital arm of Statoil, has acquired 40MW of flywheel energy storage already in operation in grid-balancing markets in New York State and Pennsylvania.
Scottish C&I project gets ‘no-money-down’ 2MW Tesla battery
A glass packaging facility in Scotland is getting a 2MW Tesla battery on a ‘no-money-down’ deal after Irish state-owned utility ESB agreed to take on the risk for raising commercial revenues from the asset.
Stem CEO: Business models and AI developed in USA applied to Japan project
The CEO of ‘intelligent energy storage’ provider Stem Inc, has said a recently-awarded project in Japan will lean on business models the company has used in the US, while artificial intelligence (AI) technology makes that same transference possible.