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NV Energy will provide 350 megawatts of solar and as much as 280 megawatts of battery storage for a new Google data center. Google and Nevada utility NV Energy have joined up on an energy supply agreement to power an under-construction data center outside Las Vegas, with future capacity that rivals the largest corporate solar […]

Americas

Why Is Wind + Storage Getting Short Shrift?

December 10, 2019 Anand Gupta

Hybrid plants combining wind, solar and batteries can reliably supply electricity during peak-demand hours, the author writes. Chandu Visweswariah is founding president and CEO of Utopus Insights, a New York-based energy analytics company acquired last year by Vestas. Competitive markets are wonderful crucibles of innovation. With decades of accumulated manufacturing experience for use in portable […]

Asia - Pacific

JA Solar Supplies High-efficiency PERC Modules for a 32MW Solar-Plus-Storage Project in Hokkaido

November 11, 2019 Anand Gupta

BEIJING : JA Solar, a world-leading manufacturer of high-performance photovoltaic products, announced that it supplied all PERC modules for a 32MW solar-plus-storage facility. The facility is one of the largest PV plants in Hokkaido, and has been successfully connected to the grid. The project represents an innovative large-scale application of photovoltaic and energy storage technologies, […]

Americas

California Demands 3.3GW of New Resources as Grid Shortfall Looms

November 9, 2019 Anand Gupta

Procurement is a boon for solar-storage, demand response and other clean resources, and could forestall last-ditch option of keeping coastal gas plants open. California regulators have approved a 3.3-gigawatt “all-source” procurement that will pit new renewables, energy storage, demand response and other clean resources against natural gas-fired power plants in a race to meet what […]

Energy Storage

Can Solar and Batteries Outlast an Extended Power Outage?

October 16, 2019 Anand Gupta

It depends, experts say. Just expect to make a few sacrifices. Even by the standards of the generally well-informed clean-energy customers in California’s Bay Area, Todd Karin is a savvy one. Karin works as a postdoctoral researcher in the energy storage and distributed resources division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Last year, he chose to […]

Americas

US Solar Industry Rallies Behind 20% Generation Target for 2030

September 25, 2019 Anand Gupta

Priority #1: Extend the Investment Tax Credit, which new research says could increase installations by 36 percent through 2030. The solar industry met in Salt Lake City with a more sweeping and disciplined message than in some years past: Rally to extend the federal Investment Tax Credit and buckle up for a decade of massive […]

Americas

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 […]

Americas

Ameresco Plots Larger Role for Solar and Storage

August 21, 2019 Anand Gupta

The microgrids and energy-efficiency specialist says the number of viable markets for on-site solar and storage is growing. Ameresco is best known as a commercial and industrial energy services company, or ESCO, competing against giants like Honeywell, Siemens, Johnson Controls and a host of other national and regional providers on HVAC retrofits, LED lighting upgrades, […]

Americas

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 […]

Energy Storage

India’s 1.2GW tender pits dispatchable renewables as viable alternative to conventional power

August 7, 2019 Anand Gupta

The state enterprise Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) issued at the beginning of the month a tender for 1,200MW of renewable power that can be used to alleviate peak demand issued on the grid, in effect mandating the use of energy storage systems (ESS). An invitation has been issued for bids to build, own […]