Canary Media

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Texas power grid has broken new records throughout this summer — for how much electricity it has had to deliver as residents cranked up their air conditioners and for how much it has used solar power and batteries to keep grid emergencies at bay.

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Canary Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

New York City utility Con Edison will need to be able to charge about 10,000 electric school buses on its constrained power grid within the next 10 years or so. Four battery-electric school buses are onsite… A $9 million pilot project in Brooklyn could help it figure out how to do that.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

In a bid to support Irish grid stability, Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has opened a major battery plant at its Poolbeg site in Dublin, which will add 75MW/150MWh of fast-acting energy storage. No electricity system can operate without a backup. In Ireland this has traditionally been provided by fossil fuel generation.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

Japan’s Hitachi has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in ABB Power Grids worth up to $7.8 billion, creating a new business aimed at tackling the renewable and distributed energy frontiers of the power industry. percent stake in the venerable power grids unit of the Swiss-Swedish engineering giant.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 24, 2024

Tetra Tech, a provider of consulting and engineering services in water, environment and sustainable infrastructure, has been awarded $85 million to integrate a BESS in Moldova to strengthen the country’s power grid infrastructure.

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Australian Energy Market Operator (Aemo) reached its conclusion in a report that considered what needs to be built over the next decade to maintain the National Electricity Market, which links the five eastern states and the ACT. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading.

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Report says sensible – and smart – policies will support the huge new load on the power system as Australia transitions to battery-electric cars. . The post Will the mass uptake of EVs blow up the power grid? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This new public body will be responsible for helping to deliver the Government’s target of a net zero power grid by 2030. Right now, when there is too much wind power and the system is unable to transport it elsewhere, the Electricity System Operator (ESO) has a choice.  The cheaper option is often to use battery storage. 

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In this episode, Shayle talks to Raffi Garabedian , the former CTO of pioneering solar manufacturer First Solar and now the co-founder and CEO of Electric Hydrogen Co. The Interchange is brought to you by Hitachi ABB Power Grids. Looking for a battery energy storage system? Hitachi ABB Power Grids is your choice.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

(APRI) has signed an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract with Shandong Electric Power Engineering Consulting Institute Co. Ltd (SDEPCI) for the Bay Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) project in Bay, Laguna, Philippines.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Italy-based EDN , a producer of on-board battery chargers and power converters, will showcase its new on-board battery chargers (BHP19 for the US and BHP22 for Europe) for electric and plug-in hybrid applications in the off-highway sector at construction trade show CONEXPO-CON/AGG in Las Vegas in March. EDN says its 19.2

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

Let’s stop pretending that we’re paying for “energy” via our home power bills and understand that we’re mainly paying for infrastructure. Here are those three parts: Energy use (per kWh) : This is the amount of electricity you use each month measured in kilowatt-hours (kWh). For most of the U.S.,

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Charged

MARCH 10, 2020

The E-Mobility Group of Daimler Trucks & Buses is launching an initiative to develop a charging infrastructure for electric trucks. The initiative will bring together e-truck customers, power grid operators, energy suppliers, charging hardware manufacturers and charging software providers, says Daimler. Source: Daimler.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The National Science Foundation has awarded $39 million to a team of engineers and computer scientists at the University of California San Diego to build a test bed to better understand how to integrate distributed energy sources and EV batteries into the power grid. “We

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

By integrating pure hydrogen fuel cell generators, photovoltaic generators, and storage batteries, Panasonic is establishing a new standard for environmentally friendly manufacturing. The EMS monitors fluctuations in electricity demand within the factory while accounting for changes in the UKs unpredictable weather conditions.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 16, 2024

Iberdrola has partnered with Multiverse Computing to pilot quantum computing to optimise the placement of grid scale batteries. The algorithm was tested in grids of different sizes, first on small-scale grids and then in larger ones such as Gipuzkoa’s. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at a successful Series B financing round of $20 million for a US-based platform, Amperon, that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to unlock value from grid data and enhance electricity forecasting. Image courtesy Great Power. This will play a key role as the platform expands.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) – which aims to drive development of the digital tech – has announced a reference library of use cases and case studies, including use of digital twins as a tool to decentralise power grids.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Polish power distribution company Tauron has launched an energy storage facility project in Poland, using second-life electric bus batteries to support power grid management. Tauron states how, for several years, they have been observing an increasing number of electric buses in use on the Polish market.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 13, 2024

Challenges Facing California’s EV Charging Infrastructure California, a pioneer in the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), faces formidable challenges in expanding its EV charging infrastructure. million battery-powered cars , with expectations to hit 15 million by 2035.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The New York Power Authority, the country's largest state-owned electric utility, just installed an unusual battery at its headquarters. The 50 kilowatt/250 kilowatt-hour battery isn't remarkable for its size, but for its promise of a design that can eliminate fire risk. Building a fireproof lithium-ion battery.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 23, 2024

Solar renewables company Infinigen Renewables and ArcLight Capital Partners have announced a power and battery infrastructure project in Puerto Rico to provide supportive flexibility and reliability to the power grid.

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Charged

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Student transportation provider First Student is working with New York electric utility Con Edison to demonstrate a Smart Energy Hub that will support the electrification of school buses in Brooklyn. First Student has around 2,000 electric school buses under contract in school districts across the US, and more than 360 EVs deployed.

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Charged

OCTOBER 8, 2021

MAHLE Powertrain and Allotrope Energy have unveiled a new battery technology for small EVs that combines supercapacitors with lithium-ion batteries in order to offer ultra-fast charging coupled with good power density. MAHLE Powertrain investigated the scenario of an electric moped used for food delivery, with a range of 25 km.

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TechXplore

JULY 18, 2024

Researchers at the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have recently developed a new generation of solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) for lithium-metal batteries (LMBs), that can greatly improve safety and performance.

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Charged

MAY 27, 2021

Aggreko, a provider of mobile and modular energy solutions, has delivered a smart battery storage system to Argonne National Laboratory. “The Aggreko battery energy storage system is useful in our research in that it is flexible, allows for fast deployment, and can be used in many different case studies.”.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Green hydrogen — made by splitting water’s hydrogen and oxygen using electricity produced by renewable sources — is a small fish in the "energies pond." Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. Today, more than 95 percent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables. locations in 2021.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

A large-scale battery storage system from Rolls-Royce – touted to be the largest in the Netherlands – is the latest to help the Dutch grid manage its overflow of renewable connections. As a surplus of renewables have been coming online to the Dutch power grid, a new problem has unfolded – that of being at capacity.

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TechXplore

MARCH 8, 2024

Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft might quickly move passengers over mountains or float them across urbanscapes. But first, an important consideration for these flying batteries is where they will charge and whether the existing power grid infrastructure can accommodate this demand.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Rolls-Royce has supplied three mtu EnergyPacks to system integrator Eigen Energy in Singapore to integrate more renewable energy and offset peak electricity loads on the power grid. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed Rolls-Royce has already supplied mtu EnergyPacks for around ten e-charging projects globally.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 13, 2024

As EVs continue to proliferate and strain the power grid, two critical challenges need to be overcome: safeguarding the functionality of battery arrays and their generated data, explains Hebberly Ahatlan of Intertrust.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 9, 2024

V2G tech company Nuvve and battery specialist Guangzhou Great Power Energy and Technology Corporation have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of stationary storage batteries and their integration with the power grid.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Amid massive wildfires, rolling blackouts and the continued threat of large-scale grid outages, California is shifting more than $100 million of its $1.2 billion Self-Generation Incentive Program budget to help low-income communities install about 100 megawatts of stalled behind-the-meter battery projects.

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Charged

JULY 10, 2024

Right now, the world is seeing the equivalent of what could only be termed a gold rush to build battery factories, and these plants will be able to produce many more cells than the global economy could conceivably need or use in the coming decade. Alternative battery technologies are also being investigated and tested on a daily basis.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 24, 2020

Startup FreeWire Technologies raised another $25 million to commercialize its electric car chargers, which are designed to reduce the infrastructural costs of installation. FreeWire went to market with a car-charging battery on wheels called the Mobi. We are doubling down on the infrastructure-light charging.".

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Smart Energy International

MAY 27, 2024

Batteries in ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) played an essential part in keeping the lights on during extreme 2023 summer heat, freeing up more than 3GW of natural gas power plants during critical hours, finds research from Aurora Energy. Interestingly, this has not come at the expense of gas-fired generation.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

homes and commercial buildings consume roughly two-fifths of the country’s overall energy, three-fourths of all electricity, and account for most of the peak electricity demand that drives generation and power grid infrastructure costs. Shifting heating from fossil fuels to electricity can cut direct emissions.

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