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Clean energy interactive: Solarwatt’s VR factory tour, installer-friendly app
Solarwatt shows off new 'training and explaining' app for installers of the company's modular battery energy storage systems.
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‘Only’ 20MW, but New York’s biggest battery project shows how to make it, there
“With no large-scale batteries participating in the wholesale market in New York, the first day we turned the battery on it was exciting to see if all our internal models were correct in how the battery would behave,” KCE's COO Dan Fitzgerald told us.
Flow batteries offer low-carbon alternative for South Africa telecoms provider
Australia-headquartered flow battery maker Redflow is continuing with a strategy of selling devices into the telecoms sector, agreeing on a second deal to repower mobile phone towers for a South African provider.
Space age fuel cell technology enters the age of solar
This week at the Solar & Storage Live show in England, Energy-Storage.news met with system integrator and inverter maker Multi-Source Power (MSP), which is now working on EV charge solutions using AFC's fuel cells.
KORE Power targets 6GWh of NMC battery production capacity for ESS
Idaho-headquartered KORE Power claims it will have 6GWh annual production capacity for its lithium battery energy storage solutions, based on high-power nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) cells, up and running during the first quarter of next year.
Africa’s ‘largest off-grid solar hybrid’ goes online at Nigerian University BUK
The latest project to be switched on in Nigeria’s solar electrification programme for universities is also thought to be the largest ‘hybrid’ plant of its kind on the African continent so far, inaugurated this week at Bayero University Kano (BUK).
QCELLS’ ESS partner Eguana strikes manufacturer deal with Jabil
Eguana Technologies has signed a deal with contract manufacturer Jabil for the production of residential and commercial energy storage systems.
ESS beyond the hype: PV Tech Power’s Special Report looks at the challenges ahead
PV Tech Power, the downstream solar industry journal from our publisher Solar Media, has reached its fifth ‘birthday’ and Volume 20 of the quarterly magazine, out now, includes a special report on energy storage.
ROUNDUP: Arnold’s AMS uses AI in Australia, Panel-level storage tries again, Growatt gets ESS-ready
News in brief from around the world of energy storage.
Sonnen, Rocky Mountain Power to deploy 12.6MWh virtual power plant in Utah
Rapidly-globalising energy storage company Sonnen has teamed up with utility Rocky Mountain Power to take its virtual power plant concept to the US state of Utah.
Johnson Controls, Con Edison to offer solar-plus-storage financing solution
Johnson Controls, the intelligent buildings and infrastructure group, has expanded the scope of an existing agreement to work with Con Edison on energy storage to now extend financing to customers who want solar and storage.
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Guest blog
Cycle of life: a circular economy approach to lithium batteries
Enabling batteries to be repaired, upgraded and reused when no longer suitable for their first life will have social as well as environmental benefits, Amrit Chandan, CEO of Aceleron, argues.
ROUNDUP: Australia’s vanadium, UK battery+EV charger deal, DC-coupled optimiser launch from Alencon
News in brief from around the world in energy storage.
‘Transactive energy’ powers households as Australia’s AGL expands virtual power plant
Virtual power plants made up of household solar and battery systems look set to continue their rise in Australia, with utility AGL expanding the scope of an ongoing project significantly.
Podcast audio: SolarEdge’s first battery launch and how solar is ‘now a real contender’
Here's the extended audio version of our recent interview with Lior Handelsman, founder and VP for product and marketing strategy, talking for the first time in depth about the forthcoming launch of a battery system under the SolarEdge brand.
‘World’s largest tech investor’ puts US$110m bet on energy storage using concrete
Swiss energy storage start-up Energy Vault will use the investment from Soft Bank's Vision Fund to "accelerate global deployment" of its energy storage tower technology.