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Published: 12 Mar 2021, 05:46 By: Molly Lempriere Gravitricity engineering project manager Frances Tierney, with senior mechanical engineer Steven Kirk by the tower. Image: Gravitricity. A new market mechanism for longer-duration storage should be created according to the UK’s Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA). In a new report, the trade association — formerly known as the Renewable Energy Association — looked into the need for longer-duration storag...

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Published: 11 Mar 2021, 12:41 By: Grid Storage Launchpad rendering. Image: Pacific Northwest National Lab. A US$75 million national research and development (R&D) facility for energy storage is expected to be up and running by 2025, the US Department of Energy said yesterday. Called the Grid Storage Launchpad (GSL), 30 separate research laboratories will be hosted at the site including technology prototype testing chambers and other test labs that put energy storage technologies t...

Iulia Gheorghiu / Utility Dive Published March 11, 2021 Share it The following is a contributed article by Astrid Atkinson, co-founder and CEO of Camus Energy, Dr. Varun Sivaram, senior research scholar at Columbia Universitys Center on Global Energy Policy, and Richard L. Kauffman, chairman of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.  The technology to create virtual power plants made up of dist...

Published: 10 Mar 2021, 05:33 By: Editor Moss Landing, Monterrey Bay, California, pictured before the gas power plant complex in the centre was redeveloped to house two of the largest battery storage projects in the world, both in PG&Es service area. Image: US Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), one of California’s three main investor-owned utilities, has said that 1,400MW of battery storage to be deployed in its service area by the end ...

10 March 2021: FlexGen appoints solar industry stalwarts as new CEO and CFO  Energy storage technology company FlexGen has appointed two longstanding clean energy industry veterans as its new CEO and CFO. The company, which started out in microgrids and UPS in various international geographies but is increasingly working on large-scale battery storage projects for developers and utilities based in the US, has hired Kelcy Pegler as its new CEO and Yann Brandt as its new chief financial officer....

The go-to resource for in-depth news, analysis, blogs and more on the international energy storage industry

The go-to resource for in-depth news, analysis, blogs and more on the international energy storage industry

Dive Brief: Global climate models are significantly overestimating the savings from energy efficiency measures, meaning future energy demand projections have been understated and the emissions reduction targets set out in the Paris climate accord could be harder to achieve, according to a new paper by an international team of researchers Economy-wide rebound effects such as consumers driving more miles when the price of gas drops, "may erode more than half of the expected energy savings from i...