GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Residential solar company Sunnova experienced a surge in customers buying energy storage in the fourth quarter of 2019, CEO John Berger said on an earnings call Tuesday. The share of customers opting for batteries alongside solar, referred to as the "attachment rate," jumped from 15 percent in Q3 to 24 percent in Q4.

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Charged

JULY 9, 2024

Now, after a development phase of around two years, the company has officially put its first Stationary Battery Backed Mega Charger (SBC) into operation, with Swiss logistics provider Galliker Transport, a century-old family-run firm. The battery packs are replenished with self-generated solar power. Source: Designwerk

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2020

Two-year project saw 40 batteries and solar rooftop sets fitted across a cluster of homes in bid to more flexibly manage electricity. To that end, today's findings also highlighted potential cost savings for householders who install smart, flexible power management systems.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 24, 2024

A mini power plant that turns a standard power outlet into a solar power inlet. Portable solar generators are so useful that you increasingly see them at the beach, campground, job site, or anywhere without access to grid power. A special flat cable allows the window to close.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 27, 2019

operation: It will supply battery systems to an entire new residential community, with a contract in place to deliver grid services to the local utility. Sonnen will install more than 600 ecoLinx batteries in developer Wasatch Group's Soleil Lofts apartments in Herriman, Utah, a rapidly growing region south of Salt Lake City.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 8, 2024

More than 31 million people — nearly 10 percent of the population in the US — live in an area that will experience the total solar eclipse today. Millions more live near dirty power plants that could be tapped to make up for a loss of solar power. While solar generation falls, electricity demand is expected to rise.

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Charged

MARCH 30, 2021

Each station will deliver Level 2 charging, which can charge the Jeep Wrangler 4xe’s 17 kWh battery pack in about two hours, delivering up to 21 miles of electric range. Jeep 4xe charging stations will be either directly connected to the power grid or use solar power to generate electricity.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

Households with solar panels and batteries installed can earn savings on their winter bills for excess energy generated in the summer. Shell has become the latest energy supplier to launch a flexible tariff, allowing householders to potentially earn money back for helping to balance supply and demand for the power grid.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 13, 2024

“Once operational, our EarthStore facility in Christine will be the first geothermal energy storage system to store potential energy deep in the earth and supply electrons to a power grid,” said Cindy Taff, CEO of Sage Geosystems. In addition, water losses are targeted to be less than 2 percent.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Global energy storage platform provider Powin and Pulse Clean Energy, an investor, developer and operator of flexibility and stability assets in the UK, will deploy a 50MW/110MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) on the Scottish project Overhill, located in Aberdeen.

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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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Energy Refuge

APRIL 7, 2020

The panels during the day supply charges to a rechargeable battery that in turn powers a LED or fluorescent lamp at night. Solar street lights are used for illuminating: Highways Bridges Municipalities Roads Construction sites Car parks Development projects. They do need wiring nor need to be connected to any power source.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Green hydrogen is both an untested and a potentially vital way for renewable-energy-powered grids to store their intermittent power for later use, not just for hours at a time, but for days, weeks or even seasons ahead. The challenges for green hydrogen as a power grid resource.

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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. Berberich didn’t blame solar power for the rolling blackouts.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 30, 2020

Among its most recent high-profile announcements was the purchase of the landmark Eland Solar Project , which will sell storage-backed solar power to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power at record-low prices. “Not so long ago, solar power purchase agreements were pricing pretty high," Allehaut told GTM.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

She reiterated this later in a scrum when asked whether CCUS is worth the cost, rather than building wind turbines or retrofitting homes with solar panels, two climate change solutions widely endorsed by environmentalists as much as the IPCC. Solar panels have been powering space stations for over 50 years.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 23, 2022

Nexamp and Borrego have activated two solar-plus-storage energy projects within ISO New England Territory, namely the Nexamp community solar farms in Massachusetts, USA. They aim to build momentum for a cleaner and more resilient regional power grid. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

Burns & McDonnell said on Monday that it was selected by LG Energy Solution and Sustainable Environmental Renewable (SER) Capital Partners to provide engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services for three 10-MW/20-MWh lithium-ion, stand-alone battery energy storage systems. The three facilities are located in the West Texas region.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 29, 2021

Most people today know home solar can help you save on energy costs while reducing your carbon footprint. Plus, when you combine solar panels with a battery you don’t have to suffer through a power outage whether it’s caused by a storm, overwhelmed power grid or cyberattack.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

New technologies such as solar power and grid energy storage are being rapidly deployed, and to accommodate these and other technologies, utilities must run electric grids in completely new ways. Identifying the best decarbonization pathways will require consideration of global battery supply chains.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

Renewable energy projects coupled with energy storage will “change the game” for India’s power grid, Raju said, by eliminating arguments that coal and gas are needed to provide baseload power. And yet, hundreds of millions of people in India still don’t have access to affordable and reliable power.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 19, 2022

Engineering consulting firm Burns & McDonnell completed construction of three 10 MW/20 MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage systems in West Texas. Kansas City-based Burns & McDonnell tapped its direct-hire subsidiary Ref-Chem to complete construction and installation of the batteries. According to a new report from the U.S.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Ampt , a DC optimizer company focusing on large-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems, has released its i50 String Optimizer – the next generation of its power management solution. Ampt String Optimizers are DC/DC converters that deliver full available power from the PV array at a high and fixed voltage.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The four microgrid and energy storage sites will help address surging energy demands in the San Diego region, especially during hot summer days and the peak evening hours when solar power generation typically diminishes and there is a significant strain on the grid.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Also on the radar are the closing of Gridmatics’ storage fund, Siemens’ financial safety net and the sale of a 410MW battery storage pipeline. The fund is earmarked to oversee the management of up to 500MW of battery capacity in the ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) and CAISO (California Independent System Operator) markets.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

From solar-powered TV remotes and driverless cars, to home recycling robots, BusinessGreen has rounded up some of the most exciting green announcements at the influential exhibition. Samsung: Solar-powered TV remotes and upcycled smartphones. Samsung's solar-powered TV remotes are set for rollout in 2021.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

From solar-powered TV remotes and driverless cars, to home recycling robots, BusinessGreen has rounded up some of the most exciting green announcements at the influential exhibition. Samsung: Solar-powered TV remotes and upcycled smartphones. Samsung's solar-powered TV remotes are set for rollout in 2021.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 3, 2024

The company has a target revenue of $200 million for these H2 solar batteries. a wholly owned subsidiary, is working on a low-cost hydrogen fuel cell intended to function as residential solar batteries. Furthermore, it also reduces fossil fuel powered grid dependence by an additional 38 percent.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

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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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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. Solar peaks in the middle of the day, when demand is at its lowest and hours before demand peaks in the late afternoon and evening.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Utility Dominion Energy is planning a major shift toward renewable energy and batteries as it looks to comply with Virginia's ambitious new clean energy law. Major boosts for solar, offshore wind and energy storage.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2021

Advocates of DRE maintain that the rapidly falling cost of wind and solar power as well as batteries provides a means for off-grid communities in developing economies to access reliable clean power without waiting for more costly national power grids to be expanded. "If

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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. The modern grid will encounter some typical challenges associated with renewable energy.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Traditionally, fossil fuel plants have provided grid stability, but with more wind and solar power coming online due to Taiwan’s ambitious goals of reaching net zero by 2050, TPC identified a significant and increasing risk of low grid inertia. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

A microgrid is a small, self-contained energy system that can operate independently or in conjunction with the main power grid. It includes energy generation sources like solar panels or wind turbines, battery storage for holding excess power, and advanced software to balance supply and demand. The exciting part?

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