PODCAST: 2019 in review and the challenging decade ahead
The evolution of energy storage and decarbonisation’s direction of travel are up for discussion in a podcast first posted just before the end of 2019.
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Editor's blog
Energy-Storage.news’ Top 10 blogs of 2019
The 10 most popular blogs on Energy-Storage.news during 2019 offer a fairly strong indication of the overall topics leading industry thinking during the year - so without further ado, here they are:
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Analysis
#SmartSolarStorage2020: Next year’s big story
This calendar year is almost finished and Solar Media Towers will shut down for a short break between 25th December and January, but we’re already looking ahead to a New Year - a New Decade - of the energy transition.
Subsidy-free bifacial solar PV-plus-storage project completed in England
GRIDSERVE has completed a “game changing” hybrid solar-plus-storage farm in York, UK, claiming it to be the first in the country to boast single-axis trackers and bifacial panels.
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Clean and lean: What a power plant should look like, from now on
The growth in renewable energy and clean tech is a terrific story which inspires optimism, but it can overlook how much more opportunity exists. NEXTracker CTO Alex Au looks at why tackling the now-infamous Duck Curve once and for all is a long overdue mission that needs completing - and how we can do that. The first blog entry in #SmartSolarStorage2020.
ESA: ‘Disappointed but not dissuaded’ as energy storage loses out on tax credits
Tax provisions announced on 17 December in the US left out any mention of a standalone energy storage ITC.
UL acquires microgrid software specialist HOMER Energy
HOMER Energy announced that it has been bought by global safety certification company UL, following the completion of the aquisition on 16 December.
PV Tech Power 21: Flow in focus, long-duration contenders and the ESA
The latest volume of PV Tech Power, Solar Media's quarterly technical journal for the downstream sector, is now available to download free of charge.
Spanish coal to renewables project unveiled as sidelined COP25 talks rattle to a close
Plans for what is being billed as “Europe’s largest solar plant” have been put forward in Spain as the UN climate negotiations came to a close in Madrid.
Power Ledger continues Australian peer-to-peer energy trading push
Energy trading firm Power Ledger’s peer-to-peer (P2P) technology is integrated from the design conception stage of a new property development in Australia.
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PODCAST: Big Energy’s green drive, a long-duration storage bonanza and GE2019
The fourth episode in the series takes a look at the rapidly increasing solar and storage commitments from some of energy's biggest names, discuss the rise and rise of long-duration storage; and what climate maessages are coming out of the UK's general election?
Mitsubishi EV batteries come full circle in 1MWh BESS install at manufacturing plant
A solar-plus-storage sysem is to power the manufacturing of electric vehicles at Mitsubishi Motors Corporation’s (MMC) Okazaki Plant in Japan.
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‘Solar-and-storage is obviously a big story nowadays’: NEC & Stem’s coast-to-coast partnership
Commercial energy storage ‘pioneer’ Stem Inc and NEC have announced a master supply agreement and wide-ranging partnership that will see the latter’s equipment and solutions used in solar-plus-storage projects in Stem’s pipeline.
Company offers discounts on storage to help Californian’s deal with the ‘new normal’ of shutoffs
With Public Safety Power Shutoffs increasingly common in California to prevent the spread of wildfires, many are calling for more residential solar-plus-storage to help keep the lights on.
Europe approves US$3.5bn for R&D in major push to create sustainable battery manufacturing ecosystem
European Commission greenlights €3.2bn research plan by seven major states to turn continent into global battery hub even as it signals it is ready to block imports on environmental grounds.
New York City’s biggest: Enel X connects grid-scale battery storage in Brooklyn
A 4.8MW/16.4MWh battery energy storage system supporting the local grid of utility Con Edison in Brooklyn, New York, has begun operation.