The export-oriented National Council of the Maquiladora Industry said hundreds of plants perhaps as many as 1,600 were shutting down due to the lack of power Freezing weather in Texas led to a chain of events that left almost 5 million households and businesses in northern Mexico without power Mexican authorities announced Tuesday that rolling […]
Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes
Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness. While ice has forced some turbines to shut down just as a brutal cold wave drives record electricity demand, wind only comprises 25% of the state’s energy mix this time […]
Sungrow Supplies a 100 MW Energy Storage Project in Texas
FORT WORTH, TX.: Sungrow, the global leading inverter solution supplier for renewables, announced that it has forged a contract to supply its fully integrated Energy Storage System to the 100 MWac Chisholm Grid project in Fort Worth, Texas. Chisholm Grid has been under construction since August of 2020 and will be one of the largest […]
FlexGen, CATL to add 220 MWh of battery storage in Texas
FlexGen, CATL to add 220 MWh of battery storage in Texas..Read More.. Source : renewablesnow
Ormat Buys Energy Storage Asset in Texas From Con Edison
Ormat Technologies Inc, an Israeli geothermal firm, has announced the acquisition of a shovel-ready energy storage asset in Upton County, Texas, from Con Edison Development. Ormat’s (ORA) wholly owned subsidiary, Viridity Energy Solutions Inc, will design, build, own and operate a 25 MW battery energy storage system (BESS) project at the site and Ormat is […]
Hannon Armstrong and Clearway Link $950M Solar, Wind and Storage Investment
Nearly 2 gigawatts of existing and new projects from Hawaii and California to Texas and West Virginia. Hannon Armstrong and Clearway Energy Inc. are jointly investing about $950 million in a nearly 2-gigawatt portfolio of existing and new wind, solar and energy storage projects, capping off a year of record-setting U.S. renewables growth with an […]
Orsted, the World’s Offshore Wind Giant, Gets Serious About Solar
A company synonymous with offshore wind is building 700 megawatts of U.S. solar plants, signaling the era of the renewable energy “major.” Ørsted, a developer synonymous with offshore wind, will have a novel experience in 2021: All of the new power plants it completes will be onshore, and most will involve solar panels. Since building […]
‘All round success’ for Texas’ biggest battery storage system so far
The largest battery storage system online so far in the US state of Texas has been proven an “all round success” by an independent auditor, a year and a half after it went into commercial operation. The Upton County battery storage project, a 10MW / 42MWh system installed and commissioned by system integrator FlexGen is […]
Mitsubishi Hitachi and Powin Energy to build 200 MW of energy storage in Texas
Key Capture Energy (KCE) has selected Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas (MHPS) and Powin Energy Corporation to build three utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects totaling 200 MW in Texas. MHPS will provide turnkey engineering, procurement and construction, as well as long-term service support for all DC equipment, power conversion systems, and high voltage […]
Enel targets 1GW of battery deployment alongside major renewables push
Enel Green Power has broken ground on its first solar-storage hybrid project in the US, setting its sights on deploying 1GW of energy storage over the next two years in the process. The clean energy arm of Italian utility Enel has started construction on the Lily solar storage project in Kaufman County, Texas. It will […]