National Battery Day is February 18; Capitol Hill Briefing, New Video, Infographics Highlight Great Need for Batteries in Green Energy, Low-Carbon Transportation WASHINGTON: Getting charged up about National Battery Day February 18, requires no batteries at all. Around the world, the need has never been greater for innovative storage solutions, especially advanced lead batteries. They have a […]
Energy Storage
Policy on energy storage will help bring in investments: AES Executives
Where we have seen energy storage is most successful, is where you do have a government policy. Eventually, a lot of production has to be localised for India. New Delhi: India must set out a clear policy around energy storage, much like what it has done for renewable energy, for investments to start coming into […]
Eversource Charges Forward with Cutting-Edge Battery Storage on Martha’s Vineyard
Energy company works to deliver on state’s clean energy initiative BOSTON: Eversource is proposing an energy storage project on Martha’s Vineyard that will help dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions created by five diesel-fired generators when electricity use is at its highest. Hidden inside a Cape-style building that will reflect the character of the island, the […]
Oregon to get groundbreaking large-scale wind/solar/storage facility
A new energy facility in eastern Oregon will be the first of its kind in the U.S., combining wind power, solar power, and battery storage on a large-scale. Portland General Electric and NextEra Energy Resources announced plans for the Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility today. The new facility will combine 300 megawatts of wind generation, 50 MW of solar […]
WEG acquires Northern Power Systems’ energy storage business
Brazilian electrical equipment manufacturer WEG SA (BVMF:WEGE3) announced today the acquisition of the Energy Storage System (ESS) business of US-based Northern Power Systems Corp. WEG will become the sole owner of NPS’s energy storage assets, including a portfolio of ESS patents, know-how and related materials such as drawings, projects, specifications and software, the company said […]
Tata Power commissions South Asia’s largest grid-scale energy storage system
Battery-based energy storage enables electricity to be stored and delivered within milliseconds, reducing instability of the electric grid and enabling more energy to be captured and delivered on demand. New Delhi: Tata Power today announced it has commissioned South Asia’s largest grid-scale energy storage system in Delhi. The 10 Megawatt (MW) energy storage system, owned […]
NEC Completes Energy Storage System for Consumers Energy
NEC Energy Solutions has announced the completion of an energy storage system for Consumers Energy. The NEC energy storage solution, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, includes two independent 280kW/340kWh DSS® energy storage systems and NEC’s proprietary AEROS® controls software. The energy storage system will enable Consumers Energy to investigate how energy storage can be used […]
Funding boost for Australia’s first compressed air energy storage system
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has approved A$6 million of funding for the country’s first compress air energy storage (CAES) project. US-firm Hydrostor will convert a disused zinc mine in South Australia into a below-ground air-storage cavern. The 5MW /10MWh demonstration plant will provide load shifting, frequency regulation and grid security. The Angas mine […]
UK’s Zero Carbon homes policy axe will cost households more than it would’ve saved
‘Policy that could’ve made a big difference: the country’s government has backed away from following the lead of the likes of Japan and California in mandating a Zero Carbon home policy. Image: Nottingham City Council. The scrapping of the UK’s Zero Carbon homes policy is costing occupants of new-build homes more than £200 (US$257.14) per […]
‘Breakthrough moment’: Sunrun’s home solar-plus-storage to provide 20MW capacity in New England
Sunrun has been awarded contracts making home solar-plus-storage elgibile to compete in peaking capacity auctions by ISO New England. Solar-plus-storage systems in ordinary households will provide 20MW of energy capacity in New England, with Sunrun announcing the award of a contract from state’s ISO (independent system operator). Aggregated as a virtual power plant, around 5,000 […]