Scatec has been awarded Preferred Bidder status for 540MW of solar projects with 225MW / 1,140MWh of battery storage through a government tender in South Africa. The Norway-headquartered renewable energy developer and power producer participated in the South African Department of Mineral Resources and Energy’s technology agnostic Risk Mitigation Power Procurement Programme (RMPPP). The expedited […]
Batteries Used in Hearing Aids Could be Key to The Future of Renewable Energy
If necessity is the mother of invention, potential profit has to be the father. Both incentives are driving an effort to transform zinc batteries from small, throwaway cells often used in hearing aids into rechargeable behemoths that could be attached to the power grid, storing solar or wind power for nighttime or when the wind […]
Veterans Are Volunteering to Install a Solar Panel System to the Home of Decorated Vietnam Veteran Robert Blumenstock
Veteran-owned Semper Solaris has awarded Vietnam Veteran Robert Blumenstock with free solar panels. The solar panel system will be installed at his home in San Diego on Memorial Day. After being moved by Robert’s story, Semper Solaris has chosen the local San Diegan as the 2021 Semper Solaris Cares Initiative recipient for this upcoming Memorial […]
Australia’s “Father of PV” Says Your Next Rooftop Solar System Might be Tens of Kilowatts
Australia’s “father of PV,” UNSW Scientia Professor Martin Green has predicted that the average Australian solar household will soon be installing “tens of kilowatts” on their rooftops, probably coupled with battery storage, as panel costs continue to fall and batteries becomes more affordable. Green, who just last week told the Smart Energy Conference in Sydney […]
Hitachi ABB Power Grids’ Battery Storage to be Used at 214 MW Industrial Microgrid in Thailand
Hitachi president and CEO Toshiaki Higashihara, who this week was also named company executive chairman. Image: Hitachi, Ltd. Battery energy storage system (BESS) and controls technology will be provided to a “smart industrial park” project in Thailand by Hitachi ABB Power Grids. In what has been described as the country’s largest private microgrid to date, […]
Powin Energy launches its first high voltage battery storage Stack product
Powin Energy yesterday officially launched its first high voltage battery storage product, with the Oregon-headquartered battery energy storage solutions provider claiming that 500MWh of customer orders have already been contracted for it. Powin said its new 1500Vdc Stack360E is compatible with battery cells from various suppliers and is set to begin mass production in the […]
Nearly 15GW of battery storage in UK’s project development pipeline
The UK reached a gigawatt of battery storage deployments in the second quarter of 2020 and the industry has 14.9GW in its development pipeline including 1.8GW of ready-to-build projects and 6.9GW with planning approvals in place. Mollie McCorkindale, an analyst at Solar Media Market Research writes in an exclusive blog for our sister site Solar […]
Puma Energy adds solar, battery storage at stations in Ghana
Multinational oil company Puma Energy said it has installed solar power systems and battery storage units at several of its locations in Ghana. Solar panels with a combined total capacity of 422 kWp were installed at 11 retail service stations and three Puma Energy terminals. At 11 of the 14 sites, the company backed solar […]
RWE Renewables’ first European-based battery storage project has entered full operations in Ireland.
The 8.5MWh battery storage facility will be capable of providing a rapid delivery of electricity into the power grid in order to balance fluctuations resulting from the growing proportion of electricity generated by intermittent renewables. The site is located in Stephenstown, Balbriggan, in County Dublin and is the first of two battery storage facilities that […]
Large-scale solar-plus-storage project commissioned at Mali gold mine
An off-grid hybrid energy system at Fekola, a gold mine in Mali, Africa, has gone online incorporating solar PV, battery storage and the site’s existing fossil fuel generators, project partners Baywa r.e. and Suntrace have said. Malian mines produced 66.5 tonnes of gold in 2020, making it the third biggest producer on the African continent, […]