Tennessee power group takes tentative first step towards planned 5GW of energy storage
The US state of Tennessee is set to join the advanced energy storage age with the deployment of a 40MWh stationary grid-connected battery storage plant.
Articles tagged with: Pilots And Demonstrations
Utility Portland General Electric launches 4MW virtual power plant pilot in Oregon
More than 500 residential energy storage batteries will be aggregated into a virtual power plant (VPP) by US utility Portland General Electric (PGE), with some participating households offered US$5,000 rebates on battery system purchases as well as money off their monthly electricity bills.
‘Huge benefit’ to using batteries in Ontario’s industrial peak reduction opportunity
Reducing peak demand for commercial and industrial (C&I) electric utility customers in Ontario remains a big opportunity for using battery energy storage to reduce costs and decarbonise, three partner companies working on a 2MWh project have said.
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.
‘Feasible community-scale decarbonisation’: LA neighbourhood gets blockchain-backed energy solution
With the award of funding from the California Energy Commission, advanced energy hardware and software including solar-plus-storage, blockchain and EV charging stations will help demonstrate the feasibility of decarbonising a disadvantaged community in Los Angeles.
Asian Development Bank signs US$7.2m loan for Thailand wind-plus-battery project
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a loan deal for its first wind energy-plus-battery storage project in Thailand, which is also the country’s first private sector initiative to combine the two technologies at scale.
Gravitricity to build 250kW demonstrator in Scotland ahead of 4MW project planned for next year
UK energy storage start-up Gravitricity is to build a 250kW demonstrator project in Scotland.
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Analysis
Smart neighbourhood, smart microgrid
Microgrids can offer a resilient and secure alternative for both rural and city communities. Molly Lempriere looks at some of the microgrids around the world that are transforming the way neighbourhoods produce and consume electricity.
Utility Dominion’s life after coal on trial in Virginia
US utility company Dominion Energy has started development of four large-scale battery storage plants totalling 16MW of output in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
ROUNDUP: Saft JV pilots EV batteries, Gravity storage demonstrator, Honolulu microgrid ‘Sandbox’
News in brief from around the world in energy storage.
SaltX aims to compete with pumped hydro’s economics as 10MWh pilot launches
Electrical and heat storage using specially nanocoated salt (NCS) could be economically competitive with pumped hydro, SaltX has said, with a large-scale demonstration facility inaugurated in Berlin, Germany.
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Interviews
After lithium… more lithium? Inside 24M’s semi-solid battery play
24M, spun out of an MIT laboratory, claims its latest semi-solid battery ‘breakthrough’, Dual Electrolyte technology, heralds a new era to come for advanced lithium batteries. Andy Colthorpe spoke to some of the company’s leadership team to find out more.
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.
Thailand eyes 1GW of floating PV for hydro dams and pilots large-scale battery storage
State-run utility Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) is planning to facilitate 1GW of hybrid floating solar-hydro projects across eight dams throughout the country, while the national government is piloting large-scale battery energy storage.
Siberia to get initial 10MW solar-plus-storage project from Saft-Hevel partnership
Lithium-ion battery energy storage will be deployed at a 10MW solar farm in a remote part of Siberia, as a pilot to investigate the potential for the technologies to combine in the region.
RES and ADS-TEC among latest to deliver grid-balancing batteries in Germany
ADS-TEC has just completed and connected a 2.5MW energy storage system in Germany, designed to smooth the variable output of wind power generation, while RES Group has just been awarded a 10MW energy storage project contract in the same country.
India’s SECI consults industry on 160MW solar-wind-storage hybrid plan
Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has reached out to industry to establish how much interest there is in providing EPC services for a 160MW solar-wind hybrid project coupled with energy stroage in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
South Australia’s AU$150m Renewable Technology Fund supports energy storage projects
The government of the state of South Australia has named four utility-scale energy storage projects which it will support with grants toward the total cost of development.