A future where 100% of the world’s electricity comes from clean energy sources isn’t just wishful thinking – it’s mandated by the hard realities of climate change. Getting energy from fossil fuels is a hard habit for humanity to break, but the good news is that momentum finally is on the side of renewable energy […]
Energy Storage
We are focusing on increasing indigenisation: Kari Hietanen and Neeraj Sharma, Wartsila India
We are already one of the few multinational energy companies who have a factory locally. We have a state-of-the art factory at Khopoli in Maharashtra Wartsila India, the power solutions provider for the marine and energy markets, is bullish on India growth story. In an exclusive interview with ETEnergyWorld, Chairman Kari Hietanen and President & Managing Director Neeraj Sharmashare a perspective on […]
Florida utility plans world’s largest battery combined with solar
Major US utility Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) is planning to build the world’s largest battery energy storage system adjacent to an existing solar power plant, with plans to roll out multiple other storage systems across the state. With the key proposed battery standing at 409MW capacity, the Florida energy company claims it will […]
Tesla Installs 7 Megawatt-Hour Battery for Emergency Power at a Japanese Railway
Amid the tumult of its automotive business, Tesla’s energy storage group keeps installing record-setting, grid-scale batteries. Tesla just installed its largest energy storage project in Asia to date — and deploying the hardware took just two days. (Here’s a time lapse of the build on Instagram.) According to Tesla, the 7 megawatt-hour installation in Osaka, […]
Pumped hydro storage needs $20 billion investment in India: Study
Globally, PHS is an established, proven and cost-effective technology for storing electricity at times of high generation and or low demand which can then be released into peak demand periods Pumped hydro storage (PHS) can play a key role in powering low-carbon electricity in India. Tapping into the PHS sector’s enormous potential needs at least […]
Feature: Power shift
Our energy system is woefully antiquated and based on a preposterously rickety 19th century concept. But a revolution in finally under way. Wilson da Silva reports. It was the year the Soviet Union collapsed, Osama bin Laden founded al-Qaeda, Canberra’s new Parliament House opened, and the lauded American physicist Richard Feynman died. The first episode […]
Navigant Research: Storage PPAs ‘already competitive with LCOE for combined cycle natural gas’
A new report from Navigant Research tracking the North American market for utility-scale storage plus renewables adoption and power purchase agreement (PPA) prices indicates a real shift is underway “In 2018, storage-plus made its first shift from the validation and first-mover adopters to diffuse adoption led by utilities,” says Alex Eller, senior research analyst with […]
Tesla builds its ‘largest energy storage system in Asia’
In a bid to reduce energy demand and provide emergency backup power to trains in Japan, Tesla has claimed to develop its largest power storage system in Asia. According to Tesla, it has installed a bank of 42 Powerpacks at a train station in Japan’s Osaka that can provide sufficient backup power to safely move […]
Repsol Invests in Storage Startup Ampere Amid Shift to Cleaner Energy
The Spanish oil company’s backing of Ampere follows Shell’s recent acquisition of German battery company sonnen. Spain’s largest oil and gas company, Repsol, has invested in Spanish battery startup Ampere Energy, in a move to emulate industry peers taking positions in clean energy technologies. Madrid-based Repsol this month put an unspecified amount into Ampere, a […]
Germany: CELEST energy research centre opened in Karlsruhe
The research platform for electrochemical energy was officially launched today. Researchers from various disciplines will now be working on high-performance and environmentally friendly energy storage systems at the Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage Ulm & Karlsruhe (CELEST). The platform was founded by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the University of Ulm and the Centre […]