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Clean energy interactive: Solarwatt’s VR factory tour, installer-friendly app
Solarwatt shows off new 'training and explaining' app for installers of the company's modular battery energy storage systems.
Articles tagged with: Commercial
ENGIE Storage to supply, operate 19MW community solar/storage project portfolio in Massachusetts
ENGIE Storage will supply and operate a 19 MW / 38 MWh portfolio of six energy storage sites that will contribute to the Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target Program and be active in ISO-New England wholesale markets.
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How the deal came together: Convergent CEO Johannes Ritterhausen
Following on from our look at some of the takeovers of promising or already-prolific energy storage companies in the last edition of PV Tech Power, here’s an exclusive interview with Convergent Energy + Power CEO Johannes Ritterhausen.
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.
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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...
EDF calls on Nissan’s 2nd life batteries to power commercial projects in the UK
EDF Energy has partnered with Nissan to launch a new energy storage proposition using second life batteries with the utility’s proprietary demand side response (DSR) platform in the latest high profile collaboration in the UK energy sector.
JLM taps US$25m project finance fund to scale up ‘risk-free’ C&I offering
JLM Energy, a US maker of residential ’microstorage’ systems that pair with individual solar panels, is leaning on its US$25 million project finance fund to develop larger storage projects for commercial businesses.
Energy-Storage.News joins prestigious Solar Power Portal Awards 2018
Entries have opened for the Solar Power Portal Awards 2018, with Energy-Storage.News proud to partner the event for its rebranded sixth edition.
UK green utility Good Energy to begin ‘first of many’ energy storage projects this year
Good Energy, one of the first utilities in Britain to offer all-renewable energy for consumers, has said it aims to start work on its maiden commercial energy storage development in November this year.
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.
GTM: Policy study focuses on energy storage incentives in Hawaii and Maryland
Whilst most of the federal incentive buzz for energy storage surrounds California’s Self-Generation Incentive Programme (SGIP), new bills from Hawaii and Maryland provide insights on how state storage incentives are moving beyond the Golden State.
GTM: US energy storage installations grew 100% in 2016
Led by a record-breaking final quarter, energy storage reached 336MWh in 2016, growing 100% in megawatt-hours from 2015’s installed capacity, despite staying roughly flat in megawatts with 221MW deployed last year.
Ideal Power to enter German storage market with PCS order
Power conversion specialist Ideal Power has received an order for 0.5MW of its 30kW power conversion systems (PCS) for commercial energy storage projects in Germany, from an unnamed customer or customers.
London council ‘proves commercial scale energy storage works in the UK’
A local authority in London has procured a solar-plus-storage installation which the supplier claims will demonstrate that the technology can work at commercial scale in the UK.
Sonnen: Q1 sales figures show ‘global demand for storage is real’
German lithium-ion based energy storage system maker Sonnen says it achieved an undisclosed “seven-figure sales number” in the US in the first quarter of this year.
SolarCity: Small and medium businesses in US will benefit from storage as well
A push by US leasing giant SolarCity to serve small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with its commercial solar offering will be bolstered by a tie-in with the company’s energy storage solutions, a spokesman has confirmed.
Shell to buy 20MW of energy storage from AMS
Oil major Shell is to purchase 20MW of energy storage from Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS).
Initial Tesla partners include utilities, inverters and sales channels
More details have emerged on inverters for Tesla’s new home battery system, to be made by Fronius and SolarEdge, while the EV-maker’s energy storage will be installed at demonstration and commercial projects for US utility Edison International.
SolarCity: Storage can drive down commercial solar costs in US
Along with cost reductions in balance of systems (BoS) components and US$1 billion of investment, energy storage technologies can reduce the cost of commercial solar and drive the market segment forward in the US, a SolarCity spokesman has said.
GTM: US solar-plus-storage to become US$1 billion industry by 2018
The US market for solar-plus-storage is predicted to grow more than twentyfold in the next three years, rapidly expanding from US$42 million in value this year to US$1 billion by 2018, according to GTM Research.
Commercial storage-plus-solar product launched by Stem and Kyocera in three US states
The US-based solar division of Japan’s Kyocera and energy service start-up STEM have become the latest partnership to offer integrated solar-plus-storage to commercial customers in the US, beginning with sales in three states including California.
Editor's blog
Energy storage and the great commercial frontier: a solar star is born
Neither commercial-scale nor energy storage have yet take off in the US. But as Felicity Carus reports, this could be about change as companies eye opportunities in both segments.