Fluence helping Gore Street’s Ireland capacity expansion
UK stock exchange-listed energy storage investment fund Gore Street Energy Storage Fund has applied to triple its capacity in the Republic of Ireland, up to a total of 180MW.
Articles tagged with: Epc
Sterling & Wilson working on solar-storage-diesel hybrid in Niger including 11.5MWh ESS
Indian engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm Sterling and Wilson has partnered with French EPC Vergnet to develop a solar-storage and diesel genset hybrid project in Niger, West Africa.
‘Critical municipal infrastructure project’ first to use Wärtsilä’s new battery storage solution
Wärtsilä Corporation launched its newest modular energy storage system solution at a ‘critical municipal infrastructure’ project performing grid services and reducing peak demand for a city in Virginia, US.
Zinc battery hopeful Eos expands Nigeria microgrid partnership
Eos Energy Storage will deploy a further 2MWh of its zinc battery storage systems across four rural microgrid projects in Nigeria.
ROUNDUP: Nidec ASI’s first US project, Natron claims UL first for sodium battery, Zinc8 in India
News in brief from around the world in energy storage.
California utility PG&E breaks ground on 730MWh Moss Landing battery project
California investor-owned utility (IOU) Pacific Gas & Electric has begun work constructing a 182.5MW / 730MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project at a substation in California.
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Analysis
Building battery storage systems to meet changing market requirements
Battery system integrators must navigate a broad array of technologies and varying market drivers when putting systems together. Andy Colthorpe speaks to Powin Energy and Sungrow about the engineering challenges involved in building lithium-ion battery storage.
Intelligent storage can add 50% to solar project revenues in Massachusetts, Stem says
Adding well-optimised energy storage to solar PV projects in the US state of Massachusetts can increase project revenues by up to 50%, Stem Inc has claimed, as the energy storage provider announced the completion of a front-of-meter solar project with 8MWh of storage.
‘Holy grail’: Investor Photon teases 1000MWh project plan for RayGen’s thermal hydro tech
“The elimination of solar energy’s intermittency and ensuring its 24-hour availability at grid-competitive cost is the holy grail and RayGen has found it”.
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Editor's blog
COVID-19: North America’s grid-scale energy storage developers remain committed to work in progress
"We work hard every day to continue to push forward to the best of our ability, as we believe that we must do all that we can do to keep our projects on track and support the greater economy.”
Wärtsilä signs grid-scale EPC and ESS tech supply deals in South East Asia, Caribbean
Wärtsilä Corporation has announced 126MWh of energy storage across two project deals in the past week in two far-apart regions of the world.
NEC to power up investment fund Gore Street’s 100MW Northern Ireland projects
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund has awarded NEC Energy Solutions both EPC and long-term O&M contracts for 100MW of storage in Northern Ireland.
Investor Lyon Group partners with China Huadian to scale up push into Asia
Australian renewables investor Lyon Group has penned an agreement with China Huadian Corporation which will see the duo co-develop and invest in power-plus-battery energy storage systems across Australia, China and other Asian markets.
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.
PV inverter leader Sungrow’s energy storage revenues up 500% year-on-year
Chinese solar inverter manufacturer Sungrow not only continues to lead the global market for inverter shipments, the company’s energy storage business enjoyed huge growth in revenue during 2018.
Cryogenic storage: €1bn JV to take ‘versatile, environmentally friendly’ systems to new territories
Liquid air energy storage (LAES), so far only deployed at scale at two sites in England, will be available in a number of new territories after manufacturer Highview Power signed a deal claimed to be worth €1 billion (US$1.12 billion).
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.
Macquarie-owned GIG buys Conergy
Developer and EPC firm Conergy Asia has been acquired by the Green Investment Group (GIG).
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Guest blog
Recipe for success: How BSR served up its 49.9MW UK battery project
Tim Humpage, head of EPC at British Solar Renewables, discusses some of the key 'ingredients' to his company's work on the 49.9MW Pelham battery, completed on behalf of Statera Energy late last year.
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Guest blog
The UK’s year of large-scale storage: new capacity to top 500MW in 2018
Halfway through 2018 and large-scale battery storage in the UK has reached over 450MW installed capacity, with around 250MW being completed this year alone. This is made up of projects bigger than 1MW, including larger behind the meter projects that have begun to emerge.
Sterling and Wilson to build ‘largest’ battery energy storage project in Africa
Indian EPC firm Sterling and Wilson has won its first large-scale hybrid and energy storage turnkey EPC contract order in Western Africa, including what it believes to be both the largest battery storage project and single battery installation in the whole continent.
WorleyParsons: Oregon battery EPC deal kicks off wave of distributed energy projects
Australia-headquartered engineering and professional services company WorleyParsons said its first EPC contract for a battery storage project in the US shows how the energy sector is moving from “mega projects” to “portfolios of smaller projects”.
Wirsol’s subsidy-free solar parks in UK likely to be battery-ready
German renewables company Wirsol has tabled plans for two subsidy-free ground-mounted solar parks in the UK, for which energy storage is expected to be included in “phase two of the build-out”.
ROUNDUP: E.On’s Texas Waves underway, Eos appoints Apple battery man, Delta launches home kit
News in brief from this week in energy storage around the world.
Doosan Heavy executes its own PV-plus-storage project at Changwon HQ
South Korean industrial group Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has self-executed a solar-plus-storage project at its head offices in Changwon, using this and other projects on its own premises as a learning curve for external projects.
POWERCHINA added to ‘strategically important’ Philippines pumped hydro team
A proposed 500MW pumped hydro energy storage facility in the Philippines will be designed and constructed by Power Construction Corporation of China (POWERCHINA), which will also carry out procurement duties.
USTDA backs tender request for 25MW hybrid solar-storage in Sierra Leone
The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has put out a tender request for a 25MW hybrid solar-diesel-storage project in Sierra Leone.
Interviews
Belectric’s Frank Amend on innogy acquisition and replacing thermal generation
Belectric has developed PV plants on every continent of the globe except Antarctica and also delivers energy storage system projects and offers a wide range of energy storage solutions including in-house battery systems, turn-key large-scale battery storage as well as scalable container solutions. Managing director of Belectric Solar and Battery, Frank Amend, spoke to Energy-Storage.News about the company's recent acquisition by RWE subsidiary innogy and where the company sees energy storage (and solar) going.