A roundup of user-posted analysis, views and unofficial news from across the industry this past week, this time looking at this week’s sabotage attack on the German grid, BESS revenues and electricity market activity, CATL’s LFP price cut and various non-lithium news.
Shell has sold sonnen, the residential battery storage company it acquired in 2019, as the oil & gas major focuses its attention on “portfolio high-grading efforts.”
Residential energy storage startup Base Power and utility El Paso Electric Company (EPE) have announced a new residential distributed energy resource (DER) pilot programme in Texas, US.
Energy storage virtual power plant (VPP) provider Sonnen has launched its first VPP in Canada with utility Epcor, electric retail provider Solartility, the University of Alberta and construction company Landmark Homes.
Energy storage virtual power plant (VPP) provider Sonnen is partnering with Abundance Energy and Energywell Technology Licensing to develop a battery-enabled VPP in Texas, US.
Virtual power plants (VPPs) are networks of small-scale, distributed energy resources, such as solar panels or batteries (and in some instances vehicles) which can together function as a single power plant, providing stability to the electric grid.
Energy storage virtual power plant (VPP) provider Sonnen and contractor ES Solar have sold 18MWh of energy storage systems in Utah, US, as part of the ‘Go Back’ programme.
Real estate development company Gardner has signed an agreement with technology provider Torus to deploy flywheel and battery-based energy storage systems at its commercial properties in Utah, US.
Oil and gas major Shell is putting its residential battery storage and virtual power plant (VPP) company sonnen up for sale, according to German outlet Handelsblatt.
Germany and US residential battery storage and VPP provider sonnen’s network of batteries in Germany has reached 250MWh, and will hit 1GWh in the next few years, it said.
