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Published: 18 May 2021, 06:22 By: Andy Colthorpe Artist rendering of the Victorian Big Battery (VBB), a 300MW / 450MWh project which will enable greater interconnection capacity with New South Wales. Image: Neoen. Over a gigawatt of battery storage has been proposed in a plan to enable the wider rollout of renewables by Powercor, owner and operator of an electricity distribution network serving more than 800,000 customers in the Australian state of Victoria. The group’s network ...

Published: 17 May 2021, 06:30 By: Alice Grundy A RES battery storage system deployed for a National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) project in the US. Image: RES / NREL. A 99.9MW energy storage project in development in northern England by Renewable Energy Systems (RES) has secured planning permission, with the asset set to be operational in late 2023. Located in the Selby area in North Yorkshire, the Lakeside Energy Storage Project will be the largest energy storage project ...

Enel X and Leonardo collaborate on sustainable Energy Management The project, involving the Leonardo Aircraft Division plant in Cameri (Novara), which will support Italy’s national electricity grid, by making available up to 2 MW of production capacity, is now underway The project may be further developed with new Energy Management initiatives for the optimal use of the electricity used by Leonardo in favor of the security of the national system   th 2021 – A sustainability agreement that ...

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Published: 17 May 2021, 14:52 By: Editor-in-Chief, Solar Media Lithium-ion inspection solutions by ZEISS. The raw materials situation for storage doesnt look as tricky as it does for solar, but some of the problems lie further downstream. Image: Andy Colthorpe / Solar Media. The Solar Media podcast is back for another episode, and Liam Stoker and Andy Colthorpe kick off with an exploration of the deepening materials crisis impacting upstream solar manufacturing, through from modu...

Published: 17 May 2021, 14:35 By: Two Tesla Powerwalls Green Mountain Power, a utility company in Vermont, has begun using Tesla Powerwall energy storage systems in customers’ homes as a frequency regulation resource to benefit the regional grid. The company, which serves about 266,000 customers in the northeastern US state, was actually the first utility in the country to sell Tesla’s Powerwall residential systems after they were launched in 2015. As part of that offering, Gr...

Dive Brief: Californias electric system is in a better position than it was last summer, when a record-breaking heatwave led to rolling blackouts in the state, but theres still cause for concern, according to a new assessment from the California Independent System Operator. Although forecasted load levels have not significantly changed under normal conditions, CAISO could have a tough time meeting demand this summer thanks to a second year of low hydroelectric energy supplies and the higher pos...

Published: 13 May 2021, 08:35 By: Andy Colthorpe Enapters AEM Multicore design which stacks together 440 of the companys modular electrolyser units. Image: Enapter. Australian flow battery energy storage company Redflow has entered a “high voltage, high capacity grid-scale future,” unveiling a new system it has created to be deployed at a 2MWh project in California. Redflow makes redox flow batteries based on a zinc-bromine electrolyte chemistry which are intended to be durabl...

Published: 13 May 2021, 07:30 By: Andy Colthorpe Detail of Enels 497MW Roadrunner solar farm in Texas, operational since December 2019, where a battery storage system will be retrofitted. Image: Enel Green Power Americas. Construction has begun on more than a gigawatt of large-scale renewable energy projects with battery storage attached in Texas, by Enel Green Power North America, the regional renewable and clean energy arm of European utility Enel. The parent company said earlier...

Published: 13 May 2021, 13:44 By: Andy Colthorpe A 100MW, four-hour lithium battery storage resource came online at Alamitos, the site of a natural gas plant in California, to deal with peak demand management, at the beginning of this year. Image: AES. A rapid and significant increase in battery storage capacity will be among factors contributing to an improved energy security position for California’s electricity networks this summer, but the grid is still vulnerable to stress...