SINGAPORE : The Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) is set to get the nation’s largest private microgrid installed on its premises in 2024. Microgrids are self-sufficient energy systems that serve a certain area, such as a college campus. And they could be more widely deployed in the decades ahead as Singapore moves to reduce the […]
CAIRO : Recently, Sungrow, the global leading inverter solution supplier for renewables, signed a new BESS contract with KarmSolar, Egyptian largest private sector solar energy provider. Sungrow will provide 2.576MWp PV inverter and 1MW/3.957 MWh energy storage system to build a microgrid for Cairo 3A Poultry Company. This microgrid, by its commission in May, 2022, […]
Precursor to large scale Hydrogen energy storage projects NTPC has awarded a project of “Standalone Fuel-Cell based Micro-grid with hydrogen production using electrolyser in NTPC Guest House at Simhadri (near Visakhapatnam)”. It is India’s first Green Hydrogen based Energy Storage Project. It would be a precursor to large scale hydrogen energy storage projects and would […]
SEOUL : The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), a state organization that implements South Korea’s grant aid programs for developing countries, will supply renewable energy systems to Vanuatu, a country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The microgrid and home solar systems will be established in Vanuatu’s isolated areas. A microgrid is an autonomously-controlled power grid […]
At MINExpo 2021 next week, Caterpillar Inc is highlighting the company’s wide range of industry expertise combined with power solutions that, it says, deliver the reliability, efficiency and sustainability for boosting the performance of mining operations. MINExpo 2021 is set to run from September 13-15 in Las Vegas, USA. These power solutions range from Cat® […]
MARION : This May, just five inventors presented their ideas on renewable energy technology at a global conference on clean energy. The only American company was from Marion, Ohio. Jason Jordan with Jordan Energy Alternative presented several ideas on a world-wide stage. “This was the largest gathering of ideas for the future. It was an […]
A remote town in Western Australia went fossil fuel-free for more than an hour, using a combination of solar power and battery storage and the project could be replicated by other isolated communities, the software provider behind it has said. As reported by our sister site PV Tech last week, microgrid technology has enabled the […]
Thai energy company Impact Solar has announced that it is developing Thailand’s largest private-owned microgrid in Sriracha. The 214MW microgrid will comprise gas turbines, rooftop solar and floating solar systems as power generation resources, and a battery storage and control system that will be provided by Hitachi ABB Power Grids. The battery will be controlled […]
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, […]
German developer and EPC contractor juwi has secured a deal to design, supply and build a solar-storage hybrid project at an off-grid gold mine in Egypt. The 36MW solar farm will feature bifacial modules, single-axis trackers and be connected to a 7.5MW battery energy storage system. Juwi Hybrid IQ micro-grid technology will enable the integration […]