US ROUNDUP: FlexGen in Utah, Generac gears up for grid services, Delta added to Energy Toolbase
A roundup of news in brief from around the world in energy storage, this week with a US flavour.
Articles tagged with: Software
Sunrun picks AutoGrid software platform to optimise aggregated fleets of solar-plus-batteries
Sunrun has made a further expansion in providing grid services by choosing AutoGrid’s software to help manage its fleets of aggregated home solar and battery systems.
Fluence’s 6th gen systems official launch: ‘Replacing smoke stacks with tech stacks’
Energy storage technology provider Fluence has launched its latest systems aimed at three market segments and - according to new CEO Manuel Perez Dubuc - aimed at creating an inflection point in the global transition to low carbon energy.
QCELLS invests in Australian DER software company SwitchDin
QCELLS has invested AU$5 million (US$3.45 million) in SwitchDin, an Australian distributed energy resources (DERs) software company that offers capabilities including virtual power plant aggregation and microgrid-forming.
Leclanché ‘requires restructuring to overcome balance sheet situation’ and pivots business models
Leclanché is undergoing a “strategic reorganisation” of the company and said it has secured funding for its manufacturing and R&D activities while also announcing a pivot towards becoming a “green tech software and systems integration company”.
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Meeting multiple needs to make ends meet: Sunverge CEO Martin Milani on residential VPP use cases
Sunverge CEO Martin Milani talks about the system architectures and technologies that can make residential storage virtual power plants economically viable and useful to the local electricity network. As told to Andy Colthorpe.
Sector-coupling demonstrator project in UK will integrate low carbon energy, heat and transport
A £31 million (US$38.06 million) demonstrator project in the UK, integrating heat, transport and energy is to progress despite COVID-19 restrictions.
Sonnen: Latest German VPP’s use of blockchain ‘proves energy storage can solve grid congestion’
Blockchain technology and a digital trading platform enables sonnen’s latest virtual power plant (VPP) project in northeast Germany to store wind energy that would otherwise be curtailed and ‘lost’.
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#DefeatingtheDuck: NEXTracker + Sunrun on smart solar-plus-storage and the future of the grid
With the complete shift to renewable energy on the grid as the intended outcome, NEXTracker’s CTO Alex Au sat down in conversation with Sunrun’s VP of energy services Audrey Lee about the best ways to do that. Part of Energy-Storage.news’ #SmartSolarStorage2020 series.
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Japan Energy Challenge: An invitation to innovators
With Japanese companies keen to learn from their counterparts in deregulated energy markets such as the UK, the Japan Energy Challenge provided the ideal forum for exchanging ideas. Andy Colthorpe reports.
Kruger Energy commissions ‘multiple revenue’ commercial energy storage VPP in New York
Kruger Energy said that along with smart software and technology solutions company Peak Power, it has deployed three commercial and industrial (C&I) energy storage projects into a behind-the-meter virtual power plant (VPP).
Tesla talks up virtual power plant solutions to target Japan
Tesla Inc. today showed off recent activities in the virtual power plant (VPP) space at Tokyo's Smart Grid Expo, with a view to bringing them at scale into the country's rapidly changing energy market.
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Schneider Electric launches DERS ‘grid management solution’ with Autogrid
Schneider Electric has partnered with Autogrid for a “grid management solution” that can incorporate and optimise diverse assets including customer-sited energy storage.
V2G project launched at London’s Islington Town Hall by Honda and Moixa
Energy storage company Moixa, together with automotive giant Honda, have launched a vehicle to grid (V2G) project at Islington Town Hall that will help to provide constraint management for the building, as well as facilitate a switch to electric vehicles.
UL acquires microgrid software specialist HOMER Energy
HOMER Energy announced that it has been bought by global safety certification company UL, following the completion of the aquisition on 16 December.
AMS chief Kennedy steps aside as company steps up AI to the ‘next level’
Susan Kennedy has stepped down as CEO of Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS), with chief product officer Seyed Madaeni appointed to take her place.
Tough to build a software-only ESS business, battery system integrators argue
While software has been described by many as the single most important aspect of how an energy networks integrates, manages and then uses energy storage, two industry heavyweights have said that selling software licensing alone was not a viable business model for them.
Autogrid ramps up involvement in Japan’s VPP space
US software and data company Autogrid has continued its roll-out of solutions into Japan’s evolving electricity market, joining a virtual power plant (VPP) project that could add more than 10,000 assets by the end of 2021.
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New lease of life: Business models, batteries keep Japan’s solar boom afloat
Thanks to “innovative business models” and the combination of PV with batteries, Japan’s “solar boom” is far from over, market expert Izumi Kaizuka of RTS PV has said.
Open source software launched to help US behind-the-meter projects hit economic sweet spots
In the latest release, Sandia has emphasised the growth in interest in behind-the-meter (BTM), customer-sited energy storage systems.
ROUNDUP: Community battery Queensland, Enel joins ESA board, Varta’s grid charge update
News in brief from around the world in energy storage.
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The smarts inside the storage: Software and analytics can drive economic value
Today, energy storage projects often fail to deliver value because of economic miscalculations. These computational issues, however, can now be mitigated by applying software, analytics and machine learning, write Enrico Ladendorf and Bryce Evans of Pason Power.
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News in brief from around the world in energy storage.
UK’s ancillary services dispatched by web-based platform for first time
UK transmission network operator (TNO) National Grid has used a new web-based platform to dispatch ancillary services using battery storage in the first example of the new system being implemented across its reserve products.
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RedT shows off vanadium stack with augmented reality app
As an interactive way to introduce its third generation of stacks, vanadium redox flow storage maker RedT debuted its augmented reality app at Intersolar Europe/ees Europe this year.
Batwind is connected and Masdar and Equinor are ready to feed it data
‘Batwind’, a much-talked about battery storage project due to being the first grid storage system connected to an offshore floating wind farm 25km off the Scottish coast, is now online.
ROUNDUP: UK listed fund underwhelms, Pumped hydro could aid Liddell retirement, QOS & DHYBRID
News in brief from around the world of energy storage.
Enel latest big name to hit Ontario’s energy storage space with 1MWh commercial project
Enel has become the latest big name to spy opportunities in the commercial and industrial (C&I) energy storage space in Ontario, Canada, signing an agreement this week for its first project in the region.
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Look beyond the hype: to really disrupt the energy world, we need a Yin to blockchain’s Yang, Pt 2.
Carsten Reincke-Collon of Younicos continues his look at the potential - and limitations - of using blockchain in the energy system. This second part covers how energy storage and storage management software could be the key to the 'puzzle'.