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Europe’s largest battery powers up in Blackhillock, in Moray

Envirotec Magazine

Deliberately located between Inverness and Aberdeen to address grid congestion from Viking (443 MW), Moray East (950 MW) and Beatrice (588 MW) offshore wind farms, the project is said to significantly reduce the amount of wasted clean energy and is an important milestone to achieving the UK governments mission to have a net zero power grid by 2030.

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Massachusetts ratepayers to pay extra $512M for transmission line for Canadian hydropower

TechXplore

Three Massachusetts utilities and Central Maine Power's parent company have agreed that Massachusetts ratepayers must shoulder $512 million in additional costs caused by delays in construction of a power transmission project in Maine that will allow Canadian hydropower to reach the New England power grid.

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APRI to augment Makban geothermal power plant with battery storage

ThinkGeoEnergy

(APRI) has signed an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract with Shandong Electric Power Engineering Consulting Institute Co. This project will provide battery storage for APRI’s Makban geothermal power plant, allowing it to support the power grid during periods of peak demand and power disruption.

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First Student and Con Edison demonstrate electric school bus V2X Smart Energy Hub in Brooklyn

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The panels, along with solar arrays on the rooftop of the facility, will be part of a generation, battery storage and power delivery system that’s capable of shifting loads to non-peak times and/or providing backup power in outages. The project includes V2X capabilities (aka a microgrid ).

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Construction starts on UK-Denmark Viking Link interconnector

Business Green

Plans to enable the UK to share renewable energy with countries across northern Europe took a major step forward today, as construction began on an electricity interconnector linking the country's power grid with its Denmark's national network.

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Bedrock Energy secures $12m in funding to scale business

ThinkGeoEnergy

Bedrock Energy has pioneered geothermal design and installation technologies, including advanced subsurface thermal simulation capabilities and an intelligent construction platform for geothermal borefield construction. According to Oak Ridge National Laboratory1, adoption of geothermal heat pumps in 70% of U.S.

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DERConnect will enable researchers to test integration of renewable energy and EV batteries into the power grid

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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