Blackrock buys 80% stake in GE’s distributed solar and storage business
The new business will design, build, own and operate distributed solar and storage solutions for industrial, commercial and public-service customers.
Articles tagged with: Renewables Integration
NantEnergy, Alfen, celebrate commercial battery-plus-solar installs in US and Europe
Energy-Storage.news received information last week on a handful of successful battery installations at commercial customer sites, from NantEnergy in the US and from Alfen in Europe.
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.
Huge battery system to export cheap solar from South Australia approved
Approval given to a 500MW (AC) solar farm project, co-located with 250MW / 1,000MWh of battery energy storage from renewables developer EPS Energy.
Governor gives behind-the-meter storage a US$55m boost on New York’s Long Island
Cuomo said that the incentives for energy storage “will help Long Islanders grow their clean energy economy and create jobs while also improving the resiliency of their grid in the face of more frequent extreme weather events".
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Meeting Kokam: From oil platforms to renewables, why LFP vs NMC is ‘never-ending story’
We also asked what it means for the company to now be under SolarEdge's ownership, why effective management and control of batteries may be a more important safety question than just which battery chemistry to choose.
Two more US utilities make major gas, solar and storage plans
New Mexico and Tennessee have both released plans for new solar, storage and gas infrastructure.
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Hybrid theory, in practice: energy storage as key to Australia’s energy ‘revolution’
Australia may be one of the leading major economies in terms of renewable deployments, but it’s woefully underprepared at a network level to actually make the transition...
Georgia Power wants to own and operate 80MW of battery ESS to ‘maximise value of renewables’
Utility Georgia Power wants to own and operate 80MW of battery energy storage systems in its service area.
Charge and discharge cycles are a meaningless metric, SolarEdge founder says
The way the industry talks about batteries needs to change, SolarEdge founder Lior Handelsman has said, arguing that knowing the number of cycles of charge and discharge a battery can perform in its lifetime is essentially “meaningless”.
WoodMac: Zero-carbon US power needs trillions-backed 900GW storage push
Analysis claims decarbonisation will require overall costs of US$4.5trn, US$2.5trn of it storage-related, as well as longer timeframes and leniency with natural gas and nuclear.
Fluence sets sights on displacing gas as work starts on 400MWh storage plant
Standalone energy storage can challenge new gas peaker plants as a "mainstream" option in the US right now, Fluence has said.
NV Energy seeks hundreds of MWh of energy storage as utility mulls life-after-coal
NV Energy has unveiled ambitions for a solar-plus-storage boom over five years, cementing its position among the US players tapping into the increasingly cost-efficient hybrid.
‘Fossil fuels are the real competition’: Highview teases 250MWh ‘CRYObattery’ for the UK
“This year, we will build our first very large, or even our first ‘gigantic’ plant [in the UK],” CEO Javier Cavada said.
1,000 tonnes of volcanic rock store energy at 130MWh pilot plant
A 130MWh pilot plant testing the use of volcanic rock as a medium of storing energy as heat has just been launched in Hamburg-Altenwerder, Germany.
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UK’s evolving ESS market likely to take installed base above 1.2GW this year
The pipeline of projects currently stands at 11GW, and although it is unlikely that this will all be built, we currently see nearly 800MW of projects at the ‘under construction/ready to build’ stage.
Tariffs on Chinese imports loom over US’ storage success
Strong deployment figures have been posted for the US’ energy storage market in both residential and non-residential segments in the past quarter, amid warnings that an escalating trade war with China could dampen some of that enthusiasm if tariffs are applied.
Large-scale battery prevents Dutch wind farm’s power from being wasted
A 10MW battery energy storage system (BESS), which will allow a 24MW wind farm to keep generating energy even in times of oversupply, officially went into service today near Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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Cloud cover: Going 100% renewable with Q CELLS’ supply solutions
Going 100% renewable doesn’t have to be at odds with modern life as we know it. Q CELLS technical sales expert Cyril Hinz talked us through the concept as well as the equipment for the company's new holistic energy solutions.
India’s Madhya Pradesh consults on 500MW of energy storage and manufacturing
The Central Indian state wants storage services to help cater for an extra 2.7 million customers brought online by electrification schemes as well as increasing penetration of renewable energy on the grid.
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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.
‘No-brainer’: Bermuda’s 10MW ESS helps reliability, lowers costs
Installing a 10MW battery system in Bermuda was a “no-brainer” from both an economic and technical standpoint, one of the engineers at Bermuda utility BELCO has told Energy-Storage.news.
Nominated: Projects in Brazil, Australia, Senegal compete for Solar & Storage Live Awards
A solar-plus-storage project in Brazil trialling different batteries, a 22MW solar farm with 2.4MW of battery storage in Senegal and NGK Insulators’ recent, huge project using sodium sulfur batteries in Abu Dhabi are among the nominees in this year’s Solar & Storage Live Awards: International project category.
‘World’s largest’ renewable energy storage project to launch in Utah from MHPS
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) and Magnum Development, owner and operator of the only known “Gulf Coast” style domal-quality salt formation in the western US, have launched an initiative that will see the start of the development for the Advanced Clean Energy Storage (ACES) project in central Utah. Tabbed by MHPS as the world’s largest project of its kind, the ACES initiative will develop 1GW of renewable energy storage.
US bills to accelerate storage ‘well designed’ but delays still expected
Two bills that have been introduced in the US to support and accelerate the development and deployment of energy storage are enjoying cross-party support and look likely to pass unopposed, an analyst has said.
UK Big Six player Centrica opts for solar, storage to underpin global EV offering
Energy supplier Centrica has unveiled its new electric vehicle offering, targeted at helping businesses across the globe navigate the EV transition, with solar and battery storage expected to play a major role.
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In pictures: Intersolar Europe / ees Europe 2019
ICYMI: This year's Intersolar Europe was accompanied by the biggest energy storage show to take place at the Munich industry bonanza. For those of you that couldn't be there, or were perhaps too busy with meetings to take in the whole show, here are some pictorial highlights and some quick commentary.
Home P2P trading frontrunner Ensync’s assets up for sale
Assets are up for sale following the bankruptcy of EnSync, a networked smart home solutions provider from the US which has been using battery energy storage to aggregate connected systems for energy trading and other services.
Saft’s 2.5MWh ESS containers: Customers now demand ‘energy as well as power’
Customers procuring energy storage systems are emphasising their demand for energy, as well as power, as the market shifts to longer durations, a representative of Saft has said.
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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.