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Virginia’s energy storage target goes one-up on New York State

13 Feb 2020, 13:39

Virginia lawmakers passed a bill to support the US Commonwealth’s electric grid going 100% “clean” by 2050, which includes an energy storage deployment target of 3.1GW by 2035.

Honeywell pairs up fire safety tech with Li-ion Tamer’s gas detection products

12 Feb 2020, 09:05

Honeywell is rolling out fire detection and safety technologies for lithium-ion batteries via its Building Technologies business unit, combining it with alternative energy innovation group Nexceris’ gas detection systems.

BASF partners with ‘metal-free’ flow battery startup JenaBatteries

12 Feb 2020, 08:45

Multinational chemicals company BASF has furthered its interest in the energy storage industry, partnering on the development of ‘metal-free’ flow battery electrolytes with German startup JenaBatteries.

AKASOL signs €20 million e-mobility battery ‘Gigafactories’ deal with Manz

11 Feb 2020, 11:30

Manz AG, manufacturing equipment supplier, has signed off on a €20 million (US$21.83 million) deal with “high performance” battery maker AKASOL for planned ‘gigafactories’ in Germany and in the US.

Dynamic Energy sells Massachusetts solar-plus-storage projects to Canada’s Amp Energy

10 Feb 2020, 12:32

The projects developed through the state's solar-plus-storage incentive programme are set to produce 11.2MWdc of energy, backed by 10.2MWh of storage.

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Industrial energy storage in 2020: Fuelling job creation and the clean energy transition

10 Feb 2020, 10:34 • By Lindsay Gorrill

Action must be taken to build up domestic battery manufacturing capacity in the U.S. to meet demand for industrial-scale energy storage systems, argues Lindsay Gorrill, CEO of KORE Power.

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#ESSummit2020: Gridserve on building a business case in the face of ‘investor disconnect’

6 Feb 2020, 12:42 • By Alice Grundy

Investors are queuing "all the way down the street" but many require the first projects to be built before committing, Gridserve's chief investment officer Mark Henderson has said.

New York’s race to the top: Ares, Dimension developing 1200MWh ESS portfolio

6 Feb 2020, 10:45

Ares Infrastructure and Power has signed off on a partnership with Dimension Renewable Energy that will see both parties build and develop a portfolio of utility-scale battery energy storage projects in the state of New York.

Developer GlidePath ‘advances’ 320MWh of ESS projects in New York’s Lower Hudson Valley

4 Feb 2020, 14:00

Energy storage developer GlidePath has announced that it is readying for construction on 80MW / 320MWh of standalone battery storage projects in New York State.

Renault batteries find ‘megawatt-scale’ 2nd life use in Belgium

4 Feb 2020, 09:02

An energy storage system made up of ‘second life’ batteries previously used in Renault’s electric vehicle (EV) has been deployed for Umicore, a multinational materials technology company headquartered in Belgium.

Lithium recycling goes commercial to meet ‘unprecedented phase of the market’

31 Jan 2020, 10:26

A new lithium battery recycling facility, established by operator Li-Cycle on a commercial basis at the well-known Eastman Business Park in New York State, answers both a growing need and an opportunity in an “unprecedented phase” of deployment, the company has said.

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