Articles tagged with: Grid Services
Feature
Analysis
11 Feb 2021, 12:37 • By Lauren Cook
Ireland's first grid-scale battery system was commissioned at the beginning of 2020 but was followed just a few months later by another one 10 times larger. The opportunities for further development in the country appear huge, with a grid operator willing to recognise the role energy storage can play in balancing the network.
10 Feb 2021, 11:54
The February 2021 episode of the Solar Media Podcast is now available to stream and asks the question: Could solar energy deployment in 2021 top 200GW?
3 Feb 2021, 11:51
Battery storage was called into action in Britain after a newly-inaugurated interconnector with France tripped.
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Editor's blog
3 Feb 2021, 11:02 • By Andy Colthorpe
SimpliPhi Power has made some bold choices in the decade that the company has been active, leveraging key technologies to “satisfy different pain points around energy". Andy Colthorpe hears from CEO Catherine Von Burg about why chemistry matters in the push for clean energy.
22 Dec 2020, 13:10
EDF is set to optimise Gresham House Energy Storage Fund’s 50MW Wickham Market lithium-ion battery site.
18 Dec 2020, 06:00
A 100MW battery storage facility in Co. Offaly in Ireland has this week been energised, having been developed as part of a partnership between local developer Lumcloon Energy and South Korea's Hanwha Group.
16 Dec 2020, 08:31
Swell Energy, a provider of distributed energy storage systems headquartered in Southern California, is seeking to develop four virtual power plants (VPPs) by mid-2023, through aggregating 100MW of solar PV with 200MWh of battery storage capacity at customer sites.
16 Dec 2020, 06:19
The award of contracts to battery storage developers in a recent auction by Italy’s transmission system operator proves the technology’s competitiveness in providing grid services once again, an analyst has said.
2 Dec 2020, 06:57
A new three-year project allowing residential solar and batteries to trade electricity and grid services in Victoria, Australia, is aimed at creating a replicable model marketplace that could be widely expanded across the country.
30 Nov 2020, 14:49
A new market for providing ancillary services to the UK’s grid has been highlighted as more valuable in its first seven weeks of operation than any other frequency response service run by the network operator, National Grid ESO.
13 Nov 2020, 11:21
News in brief from around the world in energy storage.
6 Oct 2020, 13:55
News in brief from around the world in energy storage.
18 Sep 2020, 08:37
More news in brief from around the world in energy storage.
4 Sep 2020, 06:33
A provider of home battery storage systems aggregated via an artificial intelligence (AI) platform has won the first ever fully domestic weekly Firm Frequency Response (FFR) contract with the UK’s transmission network operator, National Grid ESO.
12 Aug 2020, 10:27
Lynn Jurich, CEO at major US residential solar installation and leasing company Sunrun has spoken of the big opportunity for aggregated solar-plus-storage systems to provide grid services and in doing so help lower the cost of installations.
10 Aug 2020, 11:19
While energy storage is still a small part of their respective businesses overall, recent quarterly financial reports from US-based geothermal company Ormat and standby generator maker Generac emphasised expectations of market growth going forwards.
20 Jul 2020, 08:17
FERC Order 841 looks set to allow distributed storage to participate in wholesale markets in the US. Energy-Storage.news has collected a wide range of reactions and views from industry participants on what it means.
17 Jul 2020, 09:32
The value of energy storage increases with growing shares of renewable energy on the grid, but the availability and cost of storage will determine how successful decarbonisation with renewables can be.
15 Jul 2020, 14:01
A roundup of news in brief from around the world in energy storage, this week with a US flavour.
26 Jun 2020, 07:13
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.
Feature
Analysis
22 Jun 2020, 07:58 • By Lauren Cook
This article looks at the current status of each of these end-markets and where there are similarities and differences in how the markets have developed, along with future opportunities.
Feature
Editor's blog
1 Jun 2020, 12:38 • By Andy Colthorpe
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.
Feature
Interviews
18 Mar 2020, 10:43 • By Solar Media Staff
We sat down with Vincent de Rul, Director of Energy Solutions at EDF, based in the UK, to discuss the long term opportunities that battery storage and related technologies represent for energy flexibility and the future of renewable energy.
12 Mar 2020, 06:53
AutoGrid has been developing “co-optimisation” capabilities that will allow residential battery storage deployed to mitigate power outages to continue participating in market opportunities.
26 Feb 2020, 10:24
The UK energy storage sector is forging ahead after a landmark year in 2019 which saw maturing business models further the asset class’ role in the country’s energy system.
17 Feb 2020, 14:52
A 100MW battery storage project - consisting of two 50MW batteries - has begun construction in the UK.
22 Oct 2019, 11:55
UK liquid air energy storage (LAES) start-up Highview Power said its first ever 250MWh ‘Cryobattery’ installation will be placed at the site of a decommissioned thermal power plant in the North of England and could be Europe’s largest 'battery' system when completed.
29 Jul 2019, 12:02
‘Flow batteries’ could provide frequency response in the UK for the first time ever, as a modestly sized solar-plus-storage system has been pre-qualified into National Grid’s dynamic firm frequency response (dFFR) market.
29 May 2019, 13:03
A large-scale battery storage system will be built in Texas for the US’ biggest electric utility cooperative, to time-shift solar-generated loads and provide grid services to transmission operator ERCOT.
13 May 2019, 11:20
French firm Voltalia has started building the largest energy storage system in French Guiana made up of two separate lithium-ion batteries.