Mosaic

MARCH 13, 2025

The Lone Star state embraces solar and battery Texas is proving to be one of the nations success stories for solar and battery development. Its estimated that Texas has installed nearly 80% more of combined solar, wind and battery capacity than the next largest state. to become a solar and battery facility.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 24, 2020

Distributed energy resources including rooftop solar, smart thermostats, behind-the-meter batteries, smart inverters and electric vehicle chargers have value for the customers installing them — and for the utilities seeing them proliferate across their distribution grids. power grids.

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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. Specifically, decentralised cybersecurity schemes must be implemented within battery management systems.

Energy Monitor 104

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Peaking at nearly 32MW from 8,500 solar-plus-storage residential systems, Sunrun and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) customer batteries provided consistent clean energy to California’s power grid through the summer and fall of 2023.

Resilience 105

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Battery modules at the utility-scale Moss Landing Energy Storage site in coastal central California overheated this past weekend but did not cause a fire or do any harm to outside systems or any people, system owner Vistra Energy reported. The battery storage site is called the world’s biggest such project.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 2, 2024

Filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas, the investments included in phase one are expected to decrease future storm restoration costs by approximately $129 million and reduce the duration of power outages following significant weather events by 4.5 billion minutes over the next fifty years.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

. £119,000 for Lightricity Ltd (Based in Oxford and partnered with Bradford Swissport Limited): Using a unique, patented technology that harnesses the energy from indoor and low-level lightsources to power battery-free tracking devices.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 9, 2024

What do the Nissan Leaf, floating solar, flywheels and flow batteries have in common? Each is being tested by Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) at their Gardenia Innovation Centre, with the potential outcome of being deployed for power grid management. Flywheels and battery testing grounds.

Innovation 115

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Smart Energy International

JULY 10, 2024

million) Series B financing round to further develop its technology for power grid operators. Eneida’s tech aims to provide clear situational awareness, detecting and locating events and anomalies on the power system, enabling the optimisation and control of the low voltage grid without costly infrastructure upgrades.

Energy Monitor 119

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Not investing in the grid is like accumulating cholesterol – you find out you are in bad shape.” The Enel boss stressed that without appropriate investments into keeping the grid in good shape, extreme weather events could render it vulnerable to damage and power outages. What we need to work on is (grid) investments.”

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

National Grid’s Distributed ReStart project should prove that assets such as wind, solar and battery plants can work alongside synchronous generators to restore power following a countrywide blackout.

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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. event hosted by the Electric Power Research Institute and utility Duke Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 7, 2020

California’s two days of rolling blackouts in August were the result of disconnects between its existing grid reliability constructs and the needs of an increasingly solar-powered grid, and its failure to prepare for a Western U.S.-wide wide heatwave that undermined its reliance on out-of-state resources.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

GreenCom Networks, the Internet-of-things platform provider that’s become a go-to for major European utilities to control solar panels, batteries, electric vehicle chargers and smart home energy loads, has landed another funding round with two new strategic investors that could open new markets. Wednesday’s 12 million euros ($14.5

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 26, 2024

Re-energising the Transition draws on the results of a survey among energy professionals collected in the second half of 2023, in-depth expert interviews conducted at the Enlit Europe live event as well as insights and recommendations of the Enlit Europe Think Tank – a half-day workshop that took place in Paris at Enlit Europe 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As a nascent industry, battery storage lacks historical data, requiring investors and lenders to familiarize themselves with its unique qualities. Installing storage, whether as a standalone asset or by adding it to an existing utility power source, is highly individualized from one project to another. alone by 2023.

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Here’s some notes I took over the two days: Fascinating keynote from Prof Richard Dawson of Newcastle University on the need to build climate resilience into low carbon infrastructure and stress testing the target of a zero carbon grid by 2035 (spoiler: it can be done).

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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Power grid expansion! This is a detailed assessment of a recent North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) survey of heavy-duty battery-powered trucks by Canary Media Inc.'s The data comes from trucks participating in Run on Less – Electric Depot, a three-week-long test-drive event.

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Solar Industry

AUGUST 28, 2023

Instead, it uses advanced software to aggregate and coordinate the functions of a collection of small-scale, decentralized resources located at customers’ homes and businesses to meet grid needs. battery energy storage). The center received free installation of two batteries onsite.

Demand 98

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The ability to remotely operate microgrids, says SDG&E in a release, offers real-time monitoring, faster response to grid events, more efficient energy storage management and enhanced grid resilience.

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AutoGrid

JULY 24, 2023

Transmission upgrades are vital to help build the net zero carbon grid of the future by integrating large-scale solar and wind farms into the nation’s power grids. For example, in Texas, AutoGrid has so far helped one municipal utility shed 54 MW during 63 separate events. What can we do right now?

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 30, 2023

Form Energy is partnering up with a US utility Xcel Energy for commercial deployment of its iron-air battery storage system. The 1GWh multi-day storage system will be used to integrate renewables and maintain grid reliability as retiring coal plants in two US states are shut down.

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Charged

MARCH 6, 2024

Today’s vehicle designs proliferate with sensitive electronics, including electronic controls, infotainment, sensing, battery packs, battery management, electric vehicle powertrains, and on-board chargers. These parts are needed to convert the AC voltage into the DC voltage to charge the vehicle’s on-board battery.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

Several out-of-state power grids also reported emergency conditions on Monday and Tuesday. SCE also tapped capacity bidding programs for utility-owned behind-the-meter battery systems to provide power, yielding approximately 5 megawatts, Griffo said. On Friday, the loss of a 475-megawatt power plant around 3 p.m.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 9, 2019

On Tuesday, PG&E announced plans to cut power to about 525,000 customer accounts across 34 counties over the next two days. It’s by far the biggest public safety power shutoff (PSPS) event in state history, dwarfing the 60,000 customers that PG&E blacked out in its first event last year.

Batteries 100

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Charged

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Today’s vehicle designs proliferate with sensitive electronics, including electronic controls, infotainment, sensing, battery packs, battery management, electric vehicle powertrains, and on-board chargers. These parts are needed to convert the AC voltage into the DC voltage to charge the vehicle’s on-board battery.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 24, 2024

The project was a simulation of an event requiring 48 hours of backup power at the Cheyenne, Wyoming Microsoft data center. The demonstration used a Caterpillar Microgrid Controller for the operation of two Cat Power Grid Stabilization (PGS) 1260 battery energy storage systems on top of the 1.5 MW H2 fuel cell.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 30, 2023

State agencies will begin immediate inspections of energy storage sites, and the working group is intended to help prevent fires and ensure emergency responders have the necessary training and information to prepare and deploy resources in the event of a fire. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed Originally published on Power Grid.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

The San Francisco-based utility is emerging from bankruptcy with a massive debt load that could make it harder to raise the tens of billions of dollars of investment needed to prevent its power grid from causing more devastating wildfires. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

The new energy infrastructure includes 3.4MW of solar, four sustainable microgrids, with 1.9MW/7.6MWh of battery energy storage with microgrid controls. “Solano County currently relies heavily on the power grid, and our rates went up eight percent this year,” added Greve. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

First, it’s one of the largest-ever efforts to aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) at a scale that can help California’s power grid meet its capacity needs. What are the models for how behind-the-meter solar-battery systems can serve grid needs? It breaks ground on multiple fronts.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This means that in the event of a heatwave, a spike in electricity use would ultimately test the power grid’s ability to meet supply with demand, potentially resulting in summer brownouts or blackouts. This enables a more environmentally prudent supply of electricity to meet peak power loads, while also containing costs.

Energy 105

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The integration of renewable energy sources into the power grid presents unique challenges, such as intermittent generation and grid stability. Enhancing grid resilience Energy storage systems play a vital role in enhancing the resilience of power grids.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Electric services company Redeia, Spanish electric utility Red Eléctrica and Redeia’s tech platform Elewit announced the project, which combines and optimises lithium-ion and supercapacitor technologies, to provide multiple services to the power grid system.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Centrality of the grid Whether it is the spiralling demand for more electricity or the universal initiative to shift to renewable energy, a crucial element in this complex matrix is the power grid. Virtualisation, another product of digitalisation, contributes to grid resiliency.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Yet, as more Americans adopt electric vehicles and heating systems, energy demands are soaring, threatening to overwhelm the power grid, particularly during extreme weather conditions. To ensure reliable energy access, particularly during extreme weather events, a complementary technology is essential.

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