Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Contributed by Frank Jossi, Energy News Network. Four batteries are being installed at a North Minneapolis green jobs training center in one of the country’s first “virtual power plant” pilot projects. Each battery will simulate a household buying and selling power with neighbors.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2024

Image credit: Connected Energy. By Matthew Lumsden, CEO of Connected Energy, a firm with expertise in using batteries for energy storage. The answer is likely close to zero, but the reality is that every year tens of thousands of EV batteries will be retired from vehicles when their capacity drops to around 75%.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The energy storage market in the United States is booming, with 476 megawatts (MW) of new projects installed in the third quarter of 2020 alone, up 240 percent over the second quarter, according to industry analysts at Wood MacKenzie. Procurement and pricing evaluation also need to consider battery chemistry.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Six months after inking California’s largest single energy storage procurement, utility Southern California Edison has added another three massive utility-scale battery projects to its portfolio—plus a behind-the-meter battery project with Sunrun. The four-hour duration 2.63 utility record books.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have presented a new concept to fabricate high-performance electrode materials for sodium batteries. The results show that the capacity could match lithium-ion batteries. Sodium ions are larger than lithium ions and cannot be efficiently stored in the graphite structure.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Salt River Project (SRP) , a public power utility serving the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, and CMBlu Energy , a designer and manufacturer of long-duration Organic SolidFlowT energy storage systems, are collaborating on a pilot project to deploy long-duration energy storage (LDES) in the Phoenix area.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Photoncycle claims it can store solar power from summer to winter cheaper than batteries. Photoncycle, a startup from Norway, is tackling interseason storage of solar energy, which could save the abundance of solar energy generated in sunny months to be used for heat and electricity in the winter.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 22, 2021

The first operational remote grid for California’s largest investor-owned utility will be made up of an integrated solar, battery, and generator system. Microgrid provider BoxPower announced this week that it is designing and installing a standalone power system in Briceburg, California to help mitigate fire risk in the area.

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Solar Industry

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Raymond Corporation has finalized deployment of a full-scale BESS, solar microgrid array and warehouse energy management system at its distribution warehouse in Greene, N.Y. Raymond is now deploying the installation of a front-of-the-meter rooftop system at its Syracuse, N.Y. parts distribution facility.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Enphase Energy has booked about 50 megawatt-hours of sales of its long-promised Encharge battery in North American markets since launching it in July, tapping a growing demand for energy storage from residential solar customers, and laying the groundwork for a more complete home backup power system set to arrive early next year.

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Solar Industry

JANUARY 11, 2024

KORE Power has launched two all-in-one DC block products for energy storage, offering a 750 kWh LFP DC Block and a 1.3 KORE Power’s DC Blocks will help our customers get projects grid-connected, on-time and on-budget, ensuring that safe, clean reliable power is there when it’s needed,” says Lindsay Gorrill, KORE Power founder and CEO.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

When two of the long-duration flow battery sector’s leaders ran into problems, a common partner, vanadium producer Bushveld Minerals, suggested they should discuss a merger. ’s RedT Energy and U.S. These improvements mean the company can deliver profitable behind the meter projects.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Duke Energy’s options for reaching net-zero carbon by midcentury will look a lot different than those being pursued by utilities in the sun-soaked Western U.S., Some of those pathways move more dramatically toward closing coal plants or halting new natural gas power plants. Solar energy's winter doldrums.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 3, 2022

AI to monitor bird interactions with solar PV, lithium iron phosphate battery production coming in Europe, a lithium mine for EV batteries and the energy infrastructure requirements in the Moon to Mars exploration are on the week’s technology radar. Lithium mine for EVs. AI for the birds.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Exceedingly few batteries actually live up to the vision of “storing clean power for when the sun isn’t shining.” This year, finally, big renewables projects with batteries attached closed deals and even entered operations. It serves clean power at night cheaper than incumbent fossil fuels.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 18, 2024

Image: GM General Motors’ initial new home energy products are now available to purchase, including the equipment necessary to turn your GM-made electric vehicle into a mobile power generator for your home. Right now, GM only has one electric vehicle that’s capable of bidirectional charging: the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV RST.

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Charged

MAY 12, 2020

With a fresh round of funding, Wildcat Discovery Technologies is busy expanding its facilities, building up its battery team and doubling down on promising solid-state research projects. We asked the energy storage experts to help clear up the hype around solid-state batteries. The state of solid-state.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

market for distributed energy resources will look very different in five years than it does today. And electric vehicles will give utilities and regulators the opportunity to promote pricing regimes to encourage charging when electricity is abundant — or suffer potentially grid-destabilizing consequences.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Batteries aren’t dead when they come to the end of their useful life in an electric vehicle. Reused or “second-life” lithium-ion batteries still have a lot of juice left in them, but so far the concept of using these batteries in stationary applications has yet to gain real market traction.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 31, 2024

Sharing this solar generator’s batteries with a 3-in-1 solar fridge, freezer, and ice-making combo is a good idea that might get better. Solar generators and battery-powered fridges are highly desirable additions to vans, boats, cabins, and sheds, or anywhere power and refrigeration is needed off the grid.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JULY 13, 2024

In a recent open letter, 120 scientists and academics have called on the organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympics to reconsider the use of Toyota’s Mirai hydrogen-powered vehicles as the official fleet. This method utilizes water, solar power, and agricultural waste to reduce the energy required for hydrogen production by 600 percent.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In just a few short years, the focus at the annual Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation conference has shifted from issues around producing electricity from thermal capacity — usually oil — to what blend of renewable options are the best path forward.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 11, 2022

Concept drawing of an energy storage system. Battery storage is having its moment in the sun. In its most recent Electricity Monthly Update , the U.S. Energy Information Administration said that when it totals up the numbers for 2021, it expects they will show that battery storage capacity grew by 4.5

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The solar-plus-storage market is evolving rapidly and will look completely different a decade down the road. Batteries will be incentivized or mandated for practically every new solar PV system across the U.S. System costs will increase with the shift toward batteries. What can we expect on the way to 2030?

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Image: Redwood Redwood Materials has recycled e-bike batteries and Tesla batteries. The decommissioning recently wrapped and the batteries are now being transported to the company’s facility in north Nevada for recycling. That project was a 52 megawatt-hour battery installation plus a 13MW SolarCity solar farm.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

This is the third part of a series examining the McMicken battery fire of 2019 and its ramifications for the energy storage industry. This installment addresses the lessons for fighting fires at battery facilities. Proactive outreach to local firefighters has become crucial to the success of new battery projects.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The global energy storage market quadrupled last year to 4 gigawatts of new installations and will surge to a 15-gigawatt annual market in 2024, even as system price declines slow down, according to Wood Mackenzie. where developers are increasingly pairing large-scale solar arrays with batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. To be sure, no U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

Homeowners who make their properties more energy efficient could see their mortgage rate cut under a new government-backed pilot. They are aimed at encouraging and helping homeowners make their properties more energy efficient, with measures such as loft insulation and double glazing. million of government funding.

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Sunrun

JULY 25, 2017

That whole “getting smart” concept is what Sunrun has been working on within the residential solar sector for a decade. Experimenting with innovative energy options makes sense, because the utility company model isn’t always the most cost effective and reliable source of energy. A new way to power your home, intelligently.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 20, 2022

In the midst of wildfires, energy security concerns and grid reliability questions, two smart home solutions are providing respective approaches towards adaptability and resilience through smart technology. EcoSmart Home, which is being rolled out in the UK by GoodWe, is touted as a complete green energy solution.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Iron flow battery startup ESS raised an additional $30 million to take its technology from pilots to commercial scale. Since 2011, the company has been developing a low-cost, nonflammable long-duration storage technology to compete across domains where the dominant lithium-ion battery chemistries are weaker.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Ice Energy filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in December, in a setback for small-scale thermal energy storage. Ice Energy wanted to extend it to small businesses and homes. Ice Energy filed for bankruptcy with the Central District of California on December 17; the filing scheduled a meeting of creditors for January 27.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Distributed energy resources (DERs) is an expansive term, including everything from backup generators to microgrids. In some states with 100 percent clean energy mandates, like California and Hawaii, the focus is on solar — lots and lots of it — and the tools needed to integrate this massive new grid edge resource.

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GreenTech Gazette

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The world is hungry for energy, and batteries are becoming increasingly important in meeting this demand. From powering our smartphones to electrifying our cars, batteries are essential to our modern lives. But as our energy needs grow, so does the demand for more powerful, longer-lasting, and safer batteries.

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Charged

AUGUST 4, 2022

There is a wide range of characteristics that describe the performance of any given battery chemistry: energy density, specific energy, specific power, discharge efficiency, self-discharge rate, cycle life, calendar life, and—not the least important—cost.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances sees a new study from BDEW and CapGemini detail how sustainable transformation and decarbonisation purchasing are more important than ever for Austrian and German utility Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals. ESG for utilities: decarbonisation on the up. Microgrid debt financing.

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