Articles tagged with: Grid Services

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Many things to many people: Virtual power plants Q&A with SolarEdge

7 May 2018, 16:49 • By Andy Colthorpe

Israel-headquartered SolarEdge launched a software platform for aggregating household energy storage units - and other distributed energy equipment - into virtual power plants, last week. The company’s solution has already been chosen for a VPP project in Australia by AGL, one of the country’s biggest utilities. The commercial launch of the VPP platform direct to customers is now underway. Andy Colthorpe spoke with Lior Handelsman, one of SolarEdge’s founders and vice president of marketing and product strategy.

RWE plans 100MW battery in UK which joins growing ‘significant infrastructure’ list

24 Apr 2018, 15:21

RWE Generation is investigating the construction of a 100MW battery at its Tilbury power station in England as part of plans to convert the former coal-fired plant to a gas peaking plant.

Coal beaten out as gas, battery storage and DSR are winners in UK’s Capacity Market

6 Feb 2018, 07:29

Battery storage and demand-side response have continued to play a crucial role in the UK’s power mix, together landing more than 500MW of contracts in the most recent T-1 Capacity Market auction.

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‘Digital inertia’: Energy storage can stabilise grid with 1/10 the capacity of thermal generation

15 Jan 2018, 14:48 • By Dr Marek Kubik

Northern Ireland’s Queens University Belfast (QUB) has found that battery-based energy storage can provide inertial response for system reliability much more efficiently, at a lower cost and with substantially reduced emissions than thermal generation. Dr Marek Kubic at Fluence, which is working with QUB, explains.

National Grid’s UK frequency response procurement process aims at transparency, simplicity

20 Dec 2017, 12:41

National Grid has revealed a simplified, more standardised approach to Firm Frequency Response (FFR) procurement whilst teasing the first details of its fast-response follow-up to EFR.

Centrica’s UK ‘Local Energy Market’ trial gets 1MWh ‘flow machine’ from RedT

13 Nov 2017, 11:40

What is thought to be the largest operating containerised vanadium redox flow machine system in the UK has been connected to the grid by manufacturer redT energy, with the 1MWh project becoming the first to sign up to a local energy market being set up by British multinational utility Centrica.

Moixa gets UK gov’t grant to add third-party residential batteries into grid services platform

10 Nov 2017, 10:00

Home battery storage company Moixa is to expand its GridShare aggregation platform to include third party units for the first time after securing over a quarter of a million pounds from the UK government.

Dominican Republic energy storage stayed resilient during Hurricanes Irma and Maria, AES claims

18 Oct 2017, 02:19

AES claims that 20MW of energy storage it deployed in the Dominican Republic just a few weeks before Hurricane Irma, assisted the island nation in keeping power supplies running even as devastation struck.

UK regulator sets rules on DNO ownership of energy storage, as one puts US$5m battery online

9 Oct 2017, 13:32

UK electrical distribution system operator Northern Powergrid has begun using a £4 million (US$5.27 million) battery paid for by consumers to sell services to National Grid, despite plans from the national regulator Ofgem to prevent distribution network operators (DNOs) from doing so in future.

AMS in partnership with Southern Company subsidiary, gets Massachusetts peak load reduction grant

28 Jun 2017, 15:03

A distributed infrastructure subsidiary of Southern Company, one of the US’ biggest utilities, has formed a partnership with Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS) to execute behind-the-meter distributed energy projects.

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‘Germany is still our most important market’: Sonnen’s Philipp Schröder

30 May 2017, 10:34

• By Andy Colthorpe

With Intersolar Europe and the accompaying ees Europe events taking place this week for PV systems and energy storage respectively in Munich, we thought it timely to speak with Philipp Schröder, managing director for sales and marketing at Germany's leading storage provider, Sonnen.

Solar, batteries could save Australia $101 billion by 2050 while eliminating greenhouse gases

3 May 2017, 15:21

Distributed energy technologies such as solar and battery-based energy storage could save Australia AU$101 billion (US$75 billion) by 2050 and completely eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report from CSIRO and Energy Networks Australia (ENA).

NEC to supply battery for 1.2MWh system in Bavaria

21 Jun 2016, 17:26

NEC Energy Solutions will provide a 1.2MWh lithium ion battery system for a grid stabilising project in Bavaria, Germany.

Think tank report says German solar-plus-storage breakthrough is imminent, warns of challenges

28 Oct 2015, 17:40

One research firm has welcomed predictions from a think tank that Germany’s electricity network could cope with the addition of “huge amounts” of solar-plus-storage and even benefit, but also agreed that policy changes will most likely be required to enable that scenario.