PHOENIX, Ariz.: The Energy Storage Association (ESA) is pleased to announce NEC Energy Solutions and Arizona Public Service (APS) as the conference and utility hosts, respectively, of the ESA’s Annual Energy Storage Conference & Expo on April 16 – 18 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. ESA is the leading national voice for […]
Energy Storage
Zola Electric Unveils a New ‘Smart’ Storage System to Displace Diesel and Eliminate Outages
Zola designed the Infinity storage system to solve every level of the energy access problem—and will draw on expertise from SolarCity’s Rive brothers to scale. Achieving universal energy access is about much more than bringing light to far-flung communities. It involves delivering power around the clock to homes and businesses in areas with weak grid […]
Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant to Head Mobility Panel in India
The panel will propose and recommend policy guidelines and government interventions and possible strategies for holistic, sustainable and transformative mobility and energy storage in India. Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant will head the National Mission on Transformative Mobility and Battery Storage, which is being set up to promote clean and sustainable mobility initiatives in the […]
New York unveils incentive proposals to back energy storage goal
New York plans to allocate 80% of the USD 350 million (EUR 310m) authorised for bridge incentives in the energy storage order from December 2018 to retail and bulk storage market acceleration incentives. The New York State Energy and Research Development Authority (NYSERDA) filed on Monday an energy storage implementation plan, including initiatives that should […]
Nippon Koei targets 100MW of UK battery projects with energy storage JV
Nippon Koei, one of Japan’s largest engineering firms, has formed a joint venture with a British battery storage firm to construct two 50MW behind-the-meter energy storage projects in the UK. Nippon Koei revealed earlier this week that its Netherlands-based Nippon Koei Energy Europe (NKEE) subsidiary had partnered with RNA Energy to establish two special purpose […]
Battery Energy Storage System Guidebook For Governments and Developers
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced the release of its new Battery Energy Storage System Guidebook (Guidebook) to assist local permitting authorities and the energy storage industry across New York State in navigating the siting and review processes for the development of battery energy storage projects. The release of […]
Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant to head transformative mobility panel
The panel is being set up to promote clean and sustainable mobility initiatives in the country. Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant will head the National Mission on Transformative Mobility and Battery Storage, which is being set up to promote clean and sustainable mobility initiatives in the country. The Union Cabinet on March 7 had approved […]
Asian Development Bank to help fund Tonga’s renewables-plus-storage push
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to part-fund a US$53.2 million undertaking to power Tonga with renewable energy, including the installation of 22.2MWh of energy storage. The ADB has approved a grant of US$12.2 million for the Tonga Renewable Energy Project, through the much larger Pacific Renewable Energy Investment Facility, which is worth US$750 […]
The US Energy Storage Market Kicks Into High Gear
On this week’s Energy Gang podcast: What’s behind the big leap for batteries? The latest numbers for U.S. energy storage activity are out. They show a surge of activity coming over the next five years, leading to 6x market growth. By 2024, the storage market will be worth $4.7 billion, driven evenly by utility-scale and […]
Zola Electric Unveils a New ‘Smart’ Storage System to Displace Diesel and Eliminate Outages
Zola designed the Infinity storage system to solve every level of the energy access problem—and will draw on expertise from SolarCity’s Rive brothers to scale. Achieving universal energy access is about much more than bringing light to far-flung communities. It involves delivering power around the clock to homes and businesses in areas with weak grid […]