ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 13, 2024

Later this year, Sage will launch the EarthStore facility, the world’s first project to utilize the earth’s natural capacity for energy storage to produce clean, sustainable, and dispatchable electricity on demand.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 20, 2022

The deals were signed within days of each other, signalling Pine Gate Renewables’ attempts to look into and invest in lithium-ion alternatives for their battery storage systems. The system is reportedly capable of delivering multiple power cycles on a daily basis. This piece is the latest in storage being announced across the US.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

“Then the questions become how to achieve the 100 percent renewable future everyone is talking about without causing disturbances in the grid and effectively managing solar ramp rates and generation optimization.” Equally important is GEMS’ prediction of the renewable generation available to meet electricity demand.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Californian utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has unveiled four new microgrids with advanced remote operation capabilities and safety technologies to help enhance grid reliability.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

utilities have to plan for an electricity peak driven by summer air conditioning and cooling demand, Duke and other Southeastern utilities face an equally daunting winter peak driven by a reliance on electric heating and unpredictable cold snaps, as this U.S. While most U.S. Energy Information Administration data illustrates.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 16, 2021

Long-duration energy storage – defined as systems that can store energy for more than 10 hours at a time – would support a low-cost, reliable, carbon-free electric grid. And energy storage can increase local control of the power system and build resilience for communities, including by minimizing power grid disruptions.

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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). My kind of thinking.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to generous feed-in tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could cover half of the country’s electricity demand. “It’s not economical today.”

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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

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. The storage projects are designed as stand-alone energy resources to help reduce rolling blackouts and support Texas’ power grid as supply and demand fluctuates.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Utility-scale battery storage capacity has soared over the past 10 or so years, from almost nothing before 2010 to nearly 1,000 megawatts today, driven in large part by lithium-ion battery storage, as the price of lithium-ion batteries has fallen 85 percent since 2010. Gretchen Whitmer and the MPSC of the MI Power Grid initiative.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2021

Minerals such as lithium and copper are critical for EVs and renewables, but a lack of investment and policy clarity risks undermining the burgeoning market. The expansion of electricity networks to support the shift towards EVs and heat pumps, as well as enhance energy access, also requires a huge increase in copper and cobalt supplies.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Further, the results show Sage’s technology is cost-competitive with lithium-ion batteries, pumped storage hydropower, and natural gas peaker plants. Calculated LCOS that is cost-competitive to pumped storage hydropower and lithium-ion batteries. Demonstrated the ability in a single well to generate 2-3MW net output.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 11, 2021

The facility will include 30 research laboratories, some of which will be testing chambers capable of assessing prototypes and new grid energy storage technologies under real world grid operating conditions. market demands by 2030. — — — — —. The building is expected to be operational and ready for occupancy by 2025. “It

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

ACES will provide up to 150,000 megawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, a scale that dwarfs the lithium-ion battery capacity being installed in California and across the Intermountain West. How do you aggregate that demand to create sufficient momentum in the market to drive investment?".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It heralded the achievement as major milestone in the UK's plans to develop a nuclear fusion power plant that can provide a new source of clean energy to the power grid within the next 20 years. "We Unlike nuclear fission power plants commonplace today, nuclear fusion does not emit high-activity toxic waste.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In other news, German eVTOL maker Lilium’s rough landing, the DOE’s $2 billion bet on lithium, and offshore wind is going ahead in Maine. As part of its EV battery strategy, it’s also “exploring” lithium for battery cathodes and graphite for battery anodes. All (liquified natural) gas, no brakes.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Any excess energy will be sold to the power grid. If you can store that surplus, and then release it during the winter or when you actually have demand for energy, then you have a real possibility to make a difference,” Brandtzaeg said. The company locked up the H2 molecules to make solid hydrogen.

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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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Solar Industry

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Salt River Project (SRP) and Flatland Storage, a subsidiary of EDP Renewables North America (EDPR NA) have entered into an agreement to provide new energy storage to Arizona’s grid. Scheduled to be online next year, the project will utilize lithium-ion technology, designed and manufactured in the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

The batteries capture excess electricity from the grid , primarily overnight during high wind-output hours, and can release the power when customer demand is highest. The facility utilises lithium-ion technology housed in containers that, in addition to project inverters, were supplied by Sungrow, the project integrator.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

According to a report this year by BloombergNEF , the levelized cost of electricity from lithium-ion batteries, the technology currently leading the sector, dropped by 35 percent from mid-2018 to 2019, to $187 per megawatt-hour. Energy storage can also provide backup power during events that disrupt the power grid.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

According to VISPIRON, intraday trading is important for absorbing unpredictable changes in electricity production and demand caused by the volatile feed-in of renewable energy sources. In addition to the lithium-ion battery modules, the mtu EnergyPacks include electronic controls, inverters and cooling equipment.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 9, 2024

Despite the critical role of batteries in decarbonising power grids and the economy, the utilities and commercial and industrial (C&I) sectors are also currently seeing the slowest pace of adoption. Poor battery management by end-users is also exacerbating costs and risks.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

This is notable because it would actually boost the demands on the power sector, which will increase the challenges of decarbonizing the sector. He didn’t mention nuclear power or carbon sequestration in this speech, but his website does mention them among four specific goals designed to decarbonize the power sector.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 8, 2023

Demand for high-quality iron ore is subsequently expected to grow significantly. Similarly, Canada has many of the key critical minerals needed for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, including lithium and nickel. Without it, we risk seeing our grid get dirtier as we try to meet demand—and with it, lose our competitive edge.

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AutoGrid

JULY 5, 2023

They can help to balance the supply and demand of electricity by storing excess energy and providing services that help complement new or existing renewable generation deployments. Grid-Scale Batteries Grid-scale energy storage systems include batteries, flywheels, pumped hydro, and compressed air energy storage. Merchant Model.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

BloombergNEF also expects costs across the sector to remain high throughout 2023, due to high raw material and labour costs, soaring demand for battery packs from automakers, and cost increases across other parts of their supply chain, such as for power conversion systems and balancing services.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Firstly, getting more people walking, on their bicycles, and onto trams and trains reduces demand for vehicles and vehicle miles, while also providing a health benefits through better air quality and exercise - after all, even EVs still produce particle pollution from brake and tyre wear.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

A power system running solely on clean energy technologies is entirely feasible During a media briefing yesterday, CCC officials made a point of emphasising the huge amount of work it has put into producing its most detailed and comprehensive analysis of the UK's energy system to date.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

Even without extreme weather events, the power grid needs love. The grid was largely built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 35- to 80-year life expectancy , meaning much of it should have been retired and replaced by now. Make the grid smarter and more flexible. America’s energy infrastructure scored a C-minus on the U.S.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 15, 2021

If we could deploy solar and wind, and use this renewable energy to power our cars and homes, we would make a big dent in the problem. However, I soon realized that the architecture of our power grid would need to be reimagined. This is when I started AutoGrid to become a catalyst for transition into clean energy.

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Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Inevitable Technology | Advancing plant propagation technology to give plants the best possible start to life Inevitable Technology empowers farmers to meet rising food demand and combat crop loss through groundbreaking innovations in plant propagation. HTS cables can deliver 10x the power capacity of copper cables with near-zero energy loss.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

While the needs of business continuity require that data centers include basically a one-to-one ratio when it comes to backup resources, Microsoft is studying ways those idle resources could help stabilise the local grid in times of peak demand or instability. A model for the future?

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This week, we’re digging into the news that Arkansas’ southwestern Smackover Formation region could be home to between 5 and 19 million tons of lithium. What happened The porous and permeable limestone in Smackover has long been known for oil and bromine deposits, but only recently has industry begun to explore its lithium lode.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

They’re also a key dispatchable assets to help meet peak grid demand. Stage 2: ‘reshape’ the demand side of the grid. Stage 2: ‘reshape’ the demand side of the grid.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Converting to a 21st-century grid that is increasingly based on variable resources requires a completely new way of thinking. New sources of flexibility – the ability to keep supply and demand in balance over all time scales – are essential to enable this transition. Storage is now largely being provided by lithium-ion batteries.

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