GlidePath acquires 149MW Texas wind portfolio with storage additions planned
GlidePath Power Solutions has acquired eight wind projects in North Texas serving the Southwest Power Pool.
Articles tagged with: Texas
Power and capacity will be provided by Aggreko’s 4.5MWh Texas ‘legacy’ project
A large-scale battery storage system will be built in Texas for the US’ biggest electric utility cooperative, to time-shift solar-generated loads and provide grid services to transmission operator ERCOT.
ERCOT’s multiple opportunities a target for GlidePath’s 10MWh Texas project
A large-scale energy storage project to be built in Texas will take advantage of the system’s flexibility to deliver multiple services, as opportunities grow in the state’s Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market.
8minutenergy: ‘We can do solar peaker plants at half the cost of gas’
Many of the most polluting thermal power plants on the US grid today are also the most lucrative to run, but the service they provide could already be done twice as cheaply using solar and storage, developer 8minutenergy has claimed.
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.
Tough Texas market conditions defied as 42MWh battery system comes online
While market opportunities for energy storage in Texas are considered to be limited, the largest battery project in the state so far, a 42MWh system, has just come online.
El Paso Electric elects for 100MW of storage in 370MW capacity push
Electricity from 100MW of energy storage facilities will be purchased by US public utility company El Paso Electric, following a competitive solicitation process.
ROUNDUP: Washington’s first, Offgrid in Bolivia, Texas awards grant, Sunamp-Trina Solar
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RES breaks ground on dispatchable PV project that shows a ‘Flexible Path’ for San Antonio
CPS Energy, a utility serving residents of San Antonio, Texas, has just broken ground on the first solar-plus-storage project it will own outright.
RES to put down grid-scale PV-plus-storage marker in ERCOT territory
Known historically for its oil and in the present day for deploying large amounts of wind energy and latterly for deploying batteries at wind farms, the US state of Texas is less well known for solar-plus-storage projects.
FlexGen to build largest energy storage system in Texas co-located with solar
Vistra Energy has contracted energy storage integrator FlexGen to install a 10MW / 42MWh energy storage system (ESS) at the 180MW Upton 2 Solar Power Plant in Texas.
ROUNDUP: ENGIE acquires EPS, E.On’s Texas Waves complete, Remote Chilean residential batteries
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‘Minimal downtime’: Younicos swaps out lead-acid for lithium at Texas’ Notrees wind farm
German-American system integrator and technology provider Younicos has completed a two-phase operation to upgrade a lead acid energy storage system for lithium batteries, at the 36MW Notrees facility in Texas.
Toshiba, NRG to deliver 2MW battery for Texas wind farm
Toshiba and NRG Energy have completed a new battery energy storage system that will benefit the Electric Reliability Council of Texas' (ERCOT) grid.
Ideal Power supplies power converters to PV-plus-storage projects in California, Texas
Ideal Power, the US company best known for its power conversion systems for energy storage, has announced two recent project orders totalling 1.6MW in northern Texas and in California.
Texas publicly-owned utility goes big on energy storage
Austin Energy, a publicly-owned electric utility in Texas, is delivering megawatt-scale storage systems as part of the US Department of Energy’s Sustainable and Holistic Integration of Energy Storage and Solar PV (SHINES) project.
E.On and Greensmith Energy partner for grid-scale storage in Texas
The North American subsidiary of international investor-owned energy supplier E.ON has partnered with Greensmith Energy to deliver two grid-scale energy storage systems known as the Texas Waves projects.
AMS and Pedernales Electric Cooperative win US$3.24 million energy storage grant
Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS) and Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) have been awarded a US$3.24 million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) to demonstrate the use of energy storage to stabilise high penetrations of solar energy into Texas’ electric grid.
ROUND UP: Tesla-SCE 80MWh Powerpack station, Eguana-LG Chem partnership, CPS Texas opens EPC bids
News in Brief: Tesla’s Powerpack 2 is installed in a utility-scale project for SCE, Texan utility CPS opens EPC bids for a large-scale solar-plus storage project and Eguana and LG Chem expand their storage partnership.