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Published: 9 Mar 2021, 06:01 By: Andy Colthorpe How the Wärtsilä floating barge solution will look. The project will use 54MW / 32MWh of battery storage to help a diesel power platform to provide ancillary services. Image: Wärtsilä Corporation. The energy storage system technology and integration division of Wärtsilä Corporation will deploy a large-scale floating battery energy storage system for a thermal power facility in the Philippines. The “floating power barge” pro...

Published: 9 Mar 2021, 14:03 By: Andy Colthorpe Rialto Bioenergy Facility in San Bernadino County, California, with artist rendering of Redflow Energy Pod zinc-bromine battery units in lower foreground. Image: Redflow. Australian zinc-bromine flow battery manufacturer Redflow will install 2MWh of its battery storage systems at a waste-to-energy facility in California. In what is the Australian Stock Exchange-listed manufacturer’s biggest customer order to date, 192 of Redflow’...

Enel Green Power North America has begun construction of a wind-plus-storage hybrid resources project in Texas that will serve off takers including breakfast cereal maker Kellogg Company.

The repercussions of Texas Winter Storm events in February, may be felt for years. Scott Burger, Annie Baldwin, Jason Houck and Marco Ferrara at long-duration energy storage start-up Form Energy discuss how in-depth system modelling of current and future grids offers some early takeaways which might help prevent the next crisis and how multi-day energy storage could play a leading role.  The costs of the tragic convergence of events in Texas cannot be understated. What started as an energy cri...

Dive Brief: New York Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday advanced multiple pieces of legislation tackling issues of energy and environmental justice, including a bill that would ensure energy efficiency and the benefits of the clean energy economy reach low-income communities and communities of color (S.3126A). The state Senate also passed a bill that requires fossil-fuel peaker plants located in or near environmental justice communities to develop plans to convert to renewable energy facilities...

st April, making Tacoma, Washington the perfect place for the production of green hydrogen. The new, lower cost tariff – the nation’s first pilot rate – is designed for industrial producers of electrofuels, such as hydrolysers that produce green energy, to take Tacoma Power’s carbon-free electricity and produce hydrogen or hydrogen-rich compounds that can be used to store electricity for later use. With the approval of this rate in December 2020, Tacoma Power became the first consumer-o...

Share: “”Grand View Research, Inc. – Market Research And Consulting.”” The EMS industry is expected to show promising growth over the coming years across a number of industries, as per a report by Grand View Research. The increasing use of renewable energy sources such as solar panel systems in residential and commercial areas is expected to increase the demand for EMS solutions. The global energy management system market size is projected to reach USD 117.83 billion by 2025, progres...

Image: Uplight. Uplight, a US energy software company that helps electric utilities reduce their baseload energy use by monitoring and adapting how their networks operate based on consumer behaviour, has reached a valuation of US$1.5 billion following investment from groups including Schneider Electric. Uplight was formed through the 2019 merger of group of separate start-ups including Simple Energy and Tendril, and already has contracts with 80 different utilities serving more than 100 millio...

First published on The global appetite for electric vehicles is growing, but questions remain about the viability of the EV battery supply chain. Demand might increase so quickly in the near term that the supply chain could have difficulties keeping up. In October 2018, J.P. Morgan forecast that by 2025, EVs and hybrid-electric vehicles will account for an estimated 30% of all vehicle sales. In comparison, that figure was just 1% in 2016. "Electrification has accelerated in the eyes of governme...

Dive Brief: FedEx plans to convert its entire parcel pickup and delivery fleet to "zero-emission electric vehicles" by 2040, the carrier announced in a press release Wednesday. FedEx said it plans to replace its existing vehicles in phases. Half of all purchased FedEx Express vehicles will be electric by 2025, and all vehicle purchases are expected to be EVs by 2030. FedEx is investing $2 billion toward its plan to attain "carbon-neutral operations globally by 2040" and is focusing on sustainab...