Amp Energy India, a leading renewable energy company has hired Mr. Kapil Kasotia as Chief Operating Officer (COO- Wind, Hybrid & Storage) in line with its growth in providing renewable energy solutions through wind, hybrid and storage. While Mr. C Chaudhary continues in his current role as Chief Operating Officer (COO-Solar) for the Solar business […]
India’s Renewable Sector Open for Business -MNRE Secretary
A Webinar organised by the USISPF to connect US investors with opportunities in Indian renewable sector threw up some insights, and assurances, as MNRE secretary Anand Kumar pitched for more investments from US firms in the sector. At a Webinar organised late yesterday evening by the US India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), participants got dollops […]
What a Year! 10 Stories That Propelled Energy Storage in 2019
More batteries installed. More markets opening up. And grid storage making itself indispensable in unanticipated ways. For too long, the rhetoric around what storage can do for the grid vastly outweighed the actual doing. This year, the industry closed that gap more than ever before. Exceedingly few batteries actually live up to the vision of […]
One More Time, With Feeling: GE’s Latest Approach to Energy Storage
After a long evolution, GE now sees integrating batteries with renewables or gas turbines as its best place to add value. Century-old electric technology company GE kicked off 2019 with yet another reorg. The workhorse Power division was split up, to start. Though still a top supplier of the world’s natural-gas turbines, the division had […]
‘Cheaper Than a Peaker’: NextEra Inks Massive Wind+Solar+Storage Deal in Oklahoma
NextEra will build a combined 700 megawatts for an electric cooperative group in a landmark deal for the hybrid renewables sector. NextEra Energy Resources seems intent on proving that triple hybrid plants can work in the U.S. market. The powerhouse renewables developer contracted this week with Oklahoma-based Western Farmers Electric Cooperative to build the largest […]
Wartsila’s New Battery Business Is Ready to Go Globe-Trotting
The former Greensmith is leaning hard into fast-moving international markets. Greensmith burst onto the scene as an early storage integrator, capable of making disparate technologies work well with new batteries. Months after it delivered a 20-megawatt system in four months for the Aliso Canyon gas leak response, it joined the wave of U.S. storage startups […]
APS Plans to Add Nearly 1GW of New Battery Storage and Solar Resources by 2025
The Arizona utility says it will deploy 850 megawatts of battery storage and at least 100 megawatts of new solar generation in the coming years. The Arizona power grid has a unique set of challenges, which it turns out solar and energy storage are particularly well suited to address. Arizona Public Service, the state’s largest […]
APS Plans to Add Nearly 1GW of New Battery Storage and Solar Resources by 2025
The Arizona utility says it will deploy 850 megawatts of battery storage and at least 100 megawatts of new solar generation in the coming years. The Arizona power grid has a unique set of challenges, which it turns out solar and energy storage are particularly well suited to address. Arizona Public Service, the state’s largest […]