European gigafactory startup Northvolt raises another US$600m in equity
Northvolt has now raised in excess of US$3.5 billion of financing towards its aim of establishing 150GWh of advanced battery manufacturing facilities in Europe by 2030.
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California community group contracts for 260MWh of batteries to help keep lights on in dark times
A community choice energy provider run by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission in California has signed contracts for battery storage with EDF Renewables and NextEra Energy totalling 260MWh, to be deployed in combination with solar PV.
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Interviews
Monetising battery data: How machine learning can pay you back
Peaxy CEO and President Manuel Terranova joins us to discuss some of the biggest challenges facing the battery industry, and how smart software like Peaxy Lifecycle Intelligence (PLI) for Batteries can solve them.
COVID-19 hits profitability of ENGIE energy storage subsidiary
ENGIE EPS incurred increases in operating expenses and extraordinary costs due to COVID-19 which “more than offset” an increase in revenues that ENGIE’s energy storage subsidiary earned in the first half of this year.
Balancing supply and demand in real-time is biggest value driver for UK battery aggregators
The greatest value aggregrators putting batteries and other assets in the UK's electricity markets offer to their customers today is in providing access to the Balancing Mechanism (BM), through which the electricity system operator National Grid ESO matches supply and demand in real-time.
Mitsubishi Power working with US utility Entergy on hydrogen, batteries and nuclear-plus-storage
Update 24 September 2020: A few hours after the publication of this story, Entergy made public a new pledge to reach carbon neutrality by the year 2050. The company said that while it commits to this goal it will remain committed to "grid reliability and affordability for customers".
‘Every step’ of lithium battery value chain will have an interest in recycling
It will be in the interests of more or less everybody involved in the “broader lithium-ion battery supply chain” to establish effective recycling ecosystems, according to an analyst with IHS Markit.
Colorado 175MW solar project with 100MWh of batteries on the way from German developer juwi
The US unit of German developer and EPC provider juwi has inked a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Colorado Springs Utilities for a 175MW solar project coupled with a 25MW battery storage system.
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Editor's blog
Tesla Battery Day: Bigger form factor cells, massive cost reductions and elimination of cobalt use
Tesla hosted its Battery Day yesterday in California before a socially-distanced audience all sat in various electric cars from the company’s range and revealed its ambitious plans for more than halving the cost of battery production.
PV Tech Power Vol.24 out now: Big solar panels, big hydrogen and building better batteries
The new edition of PV Tech Power – PV Tech Power 24 – is now available to download from the PV Tech Store.
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.
CATL and KSTAR partnership takes on European residential ESS market before global push
Chinese companies CATL and KSTAR have begun supplying ‘all-in-one’ single phase residential energy storage solutions in Europe, kicking off with the market for home storage in the Netherlands.
ROUNDUP: ARPA-E funding for sodium ion, ENGIE in big Italy V2G, Enel X partnership to take on Canada
More news in brief from around the world in energy storage.
Residential vanadium flow battery systems under development for Australia’s solar-storage market
Energy storage systems based around vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) are being developed for residential use in Australia by partners Australian Vanadium (AVL) and Gui Zhou Collect Energy Century Science and Technology.
Broad Reach Power builds two Texas battery plants equal in size to state’s largest project so far
Relative industry newcomer Broad Reach Power is set to equal in size the largest standalone battery project announced so far in Texas, with two new 100MW facilities under construction in the US state.
Lithium battery recycling facility welcomed by New York Governor Cuomo
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that a new recycling facility for lithium-ion batteries helps create quality jobs and support clean energy as the state “builds back stronger” from the COVID-19 crisis.