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‘Transformative’: Sonnen to Deliver Community Battery Network With Grid Services Contract

August 28, 2019 Anand Gupta

“This is what we’ve been working on for years,” says Blake Richetta, CEO of the U.S. business at Shell-owned sonnen. German home energy storage company sonnen fulfilled a long-time dream for its U.S. operation: It will supply battery systems to an entire new residential community, with a contract in place to deliver grid services to […]

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Form Energy Raises $40M Series B for Super-Long-Duration Grid Storage

August 27, 2019 Anand Gupta

Italy’s Eni joins list of heavyweight backers as Massachusetts-based Form looks to unlock “baseload renewables.” Long-duration storage startup Form Energy thought that solving the problem of months-long grid storage would take a decade. But its last year of work advanced faster than expected. Based on that progress, the team of industry veterans has fast-tracked development […]

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IIT Kanpur Invited EOI’s From Bidders for Integrated Smart Grid Field Pilot Projects Using Solar PV

August 27, 2019 Anand Gupta

Expression of interest (EOI) is invited from the bidders for “Design, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of Renewable sources (Solar PV, Biomass) and Storage (Li‐Ion and Flow batteries) integrated Smart Grid field pilots (3 nos.) under the UI‐ASSIST project” For more information please see below link:

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Hawaiian Electric Seeks Bids for 900MW of ‘Dispatchable Renewables,’ Storage and Grid Services

August 24, 2019 Anand Gupta

The next round of RFPs will help meet Hawaii’s goal of 100 percent renewables by 2045 and replace two big power plants closing on Oahu and Maui in the next five years. On Thursday, Hawaiian Electric issued a long-awaited request for proposals for about 900 megawatts of renewable energy and energy storage projects. It’s the […]

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GlidePath Took on Storage in Texas. Now It Wants to Add Batteries to Wind

August 22, 2019 Anand Gupta

Quinbrook-backed developer will fill batteries with wind power during times of negative pricing in the Southwest Power Pool. Batteries paired with solar plants have gained momentum in sunny locales, but a market for shifting wind generation using battery storage has so far failed to materialize. Developer GlidePath Power Solutions, however, sees a path forward for […]

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California Proposes $100M in Energy Storage Incentives to Boost Wildfire Resiliency

August 22, 2019 Anand Gupta

An incentive carve-out for high-fire-risk areas could boost uptake among customers most likely to want solar-storage systems. California regulators want to direct $100 million in state energy storage incentives to a new class of disadvantaged customers: those living in parts of the state at the highest risk of deadly wildfires. The California Public Utilities Commission […]

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Texas’ Power Price Spike and Designing Markets for a Carbon-Free Grid

August 20, 2019 Anand Gupta

The Texas power market is designed to play chicken with blackouts. Is the model sustainable in a high-renewables system? Last week as Texas’ ERCOT grid reached its price cap of $9,000 per megawatt-hour and the price map on ERCOT’s website became a solid and deep red, many energy market wonks highlighted that this is a […]

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Softbank Fund Makes Energy-Storage Bet With an Unusual Battery

August 16, 2019 Anand Gupta

SoftBank Group Corp.’s massive Vision Fund is making its first-ever energy storage bet — and it’s on a rather unconventional type of battery. The fund, created by Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group Corp., is investing $110 million in Energy Vault, a Swiss startup that’s using cranes and concrete to store energy. An electric crane hoists […]

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Indian Oil will soon announce its foray in energy storage: S S V Ramakumar, Director, R&D

August 9, 2019 Anand Gupta

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“We are working on improving the efficiency of a lead-acid battery and some new generation India-centric chemistries” Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is close to announcing its foray in energy storage batteries, S S V Ramakumar, director (research and development) tells ETEnergyWorldin an interview. He elaborated on the company’s plans to set-up three ethanol producing facilities at the Panipat refinery, an […]

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Sunrun Hits Deployment Targets, Expands Grid Services Business in Q2

August 8, 2019 Anand Gupta

The nation’s largest home solar installer reached 255,000 total customers in the second quarter, a 26 percent increase since last year. The largest U.S. residential solar installer hit deployment expectations and built out its battery business in the second quarter. Sunrun installed 103 megawatts, hitting its guidance of between 102 and 104 megawatts. That’s an […]

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