First transactions made using Renewable Energy Hub’s ‘Virtual Storage’ contract in Australia
Renewable Energy Hub has announced the first transactions as part of its new ‘Virtual Storage’ electricity swap contract in Australia..
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‘Growing interest from battery sector is driving vanadium demand growth’
Vertically-integrated vanadium mining, production and supply company Largo Resources wants to launch its own vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) onto the market within a year-and-a-half, predicting that the technology will play a “critical role” in addressing significant demand for energy storage.
Siemens signs technology deal with Britishvolt to create ‘most efficient’ UK battery gigafactory
Siemens has partnered with the company behind what is to be the UK’s first lithium-ion battery gigafactory, providing it with its Digital Enterprise Technology, which can simulate gigaplant production processes and flows ahead of construction.
University microgrid simulators fitted out with equipment from Hitachi ABB Power Grids and AEG
Microgrid simulation facilities at universities in Germany and Australia are being supplied with technical solutions by major global power equipment and systems providers AEG Power Solutions and Hitachi ABB Power Grids.
US$47m funding from US Department of Energy for disruptive tech mostly goes to batteries, smart grid
The lion’s share of new funding announced this week to help scale-up potentially disruptive technologies by the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) of the US government Department of Energy (DOE) will go to battery and smart grid technologies.
PODCAST: World’s biggest battery storage system and a New Year opens a new step-up for global solar
The Solar Media Podcast returns for a new season to mark the new year. In this first episode of 2021, sponsored by SKE Engineering, Andy Colthorpe and Liam Stoker cast their gazes at the horizon and profile what the immediate future holds for the solar and storage industries.
ROUND-UP: SimpliPhi certified, Stem Inc wins SGIP incentives, Enphase and Sunnova sales tie-up
A round-up of energy storage news in brief; this edition has a distributed, behind-the-meter flavour.
Eaton teams up with EV charging specialist to create virtual power plant offering
Distributed energy storage systems made by power management company Eaton will be able to participate in grid balancing markets through integration with a virtual power plant (VPP) platform developed by electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment provider Virta.
CATL partners with integrator FlexGen on 220MWh of Texas battery storage projects
Updated 7 January 2020: Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) will supply lithium-ion batteries to energy storage system integrator FlexGen for two large-scale energy storage projects totalling 220MWh in Texas.
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Energy-Storage.news’ most-read news stories of the year 2020
Let’s take a look at the news stories that had the most page views on the site since the beginning of 2020. The list covers everything from always-in-focus topics of cost reduction and competitiveness, to fire safety, innovation and commercialisation of new technologies and, of course in this year, COVID-19.
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VIDEO: Energy-Storage.news’ 2020 picks from our YouTube channel
A year in webinars, presentations and panel discussions that you can watch on our Youtube channel right now.
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Energy-Storage.news’ most-read blogs of the year 2020
Here’s the top-ranking blogs from 2020 on the website, based on page views.
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Understanding interconnection of distributed energy resources (DERs)
DERs interconnected with the grid position a utility to better manage peak demand, avoid transmission overloads and keep electricity flowing, but interconnection of battery, solar and other DERs is not without its challenges. Jason Allnutt from IEEE Standards Association discusses a standard that has become an "essential resource" for stakeholders.
LevelTen Energy launches PPA-style contract for energy storage projects
Renewable energy marketplace creates a financial contract that "complements" existing power purchase agreements (PPAs) between corporations and developers.
Q CELLS sets sights on US C&I market as it completes Geli acquisition
Vertically-integrated solar company Q CELLS has completed the acquisition of US-based Growing Energy Labs Inc (Geli) that was announced in August.
Rolls-Royce supplies battery storage to Costa Rican textiles company with four years’ payback
An integrated energy system installed for a textiles company in Costa Rica by Rolls-Royce Power Systems will pay for itself in just over four years, the technology provider has claimed.