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Azelio’s Unique Energy Storage now Also for Solar PV and Wind Power

May 22, 2019 Anand Gupta

STOCKHOLM: In June 2018, Azelio unveiled its energy storage technology, which enables the provision of electricity from renewables around the clock. That technology is based on a thermal energy storage system developed by Azelio, which features a Stirling engine for dispatchable electricity production. The solution is adapted to solar regions and used particularly in areas […]

India

Tamil Nadu discom to halt wind and solar auctions

May 21, 2019 Anand Gupta

Instead, it will buy clean power from the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) to fulfil Renewable Purchase Obligation, a senior state government official told ET. One of India’s biggest renewable energy producing states, Tamil Nadu, will stop conducting auctions for wind and solar energy projects following poor response to its tenders which set limits […]

India

Average spot power price to be less than Rs 3.5 per unit in May

May 13, 2019 Anand Gupta

The peak demand of power this month was 178 GW due to summer season New Delhi: Average spot power price is unlikely to breach the Rs 3.50 per unit level in May on account of sufficient coal stock for thermal plants and enhanced supplies from clean energy sources, according to experts. “Despite higher peak demand […]

Energy Storage

An Unexpected Current That’s Remaking American Politics

April 30, 2019 Anand Gupta

New forms of electricity storage are making the grid more renewable and more reliable—and may change the politics of climate change. At the annual National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in Washington this month, President Donald Trump made news with some curious remarks about wind power. What went viral was his untrue suggestion that the noise […]

Asia - Pacific

China added 5.2 GW of solar capacity, 4.78 GW wind power capacity in Q1

April 29, 2019 Anand Gupta

The country also added 4.78 GW of wind power between January and March, the NEA said SHANGHAI/BEIJING: China added 5.2 gigawatt of new solar power capacity in the first quarter, the National Energy Administration said in a briefing on Monday, which includes 2.4 GW from solar farms and 2.8 GW of new distributed solar projects. The country also […]

Americas

Duke Energy Renewables Sells 1.2GW Minority Interest in Wind and Solar Portfolio

April 27, 2019 Anand Gupta

The $1.25 billion deal with John Hancock will help fund Duke’s future capital growth and support its renewable energy business. Duke Energy Renewables, the competitive renewables arm of U.S. utility giant Duke Energy, has agreed to sell insurer John Hancock a minority share of its wind and solar portfolio, amounting to 1.2 gigawatts of generation […]

Americas

Duke Energy Renewables Sells 1.2GW Minority Interest in Its Wind and Solar Portfolio

April 26, 2019 Anand Gupta

Energy Storage

SaltX aims to compete with pumped hydro’s economics as 10MWh pilot launches

April 16, 2019 Anand Gupta

Electrical and heat storage using specially nanocoated salt (NCS) could be economically competitive with pumped hydro, SaltX has said, with a large-scale demonstration facility inaugurated in Berlin, Germany. Headquartered in Sweden, SaltX has been “working with salts for 15 years”, the company’s marketing director Eric Jacobson told Energy-Storage.news today. This specific application for the salt-based energy storage […]

Featured

Transition to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050 will be cost-effective: Study

April 13, 2019 Anand Gupta

The study also finds that a 100 per cent renewable electricity system will employ 35 million people worldwide with roughly 9 million jobs in the coal mining sector from 2015 getting phased out completely by 2050 New Delhi: A transition of the global energy system to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050 is possible […]

Americas

US wind power grew 8% in 2018 amid record demand

April 13, 2019 Anand Gupta

The American wind power industry emerged from 2018 stronger than ever, now able to power 30 million American homes after 8 percent capacity growth last year. The newly released US Wind Industry Annual Market Report, Year Ending 2018 reveals that US wind power supports a record 114,000 American jobs, over 500 domestic factories, and more […]

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