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Colocating battery energy storage systems alongside renewables projects will be ‘critical’ to energy networks in the future, and could help level up debt financing.

The Texas energy system is having a wintry moment of reckoning.  The past 48 hours of record-cold temperatures have forced much of the state’s thermal generation fleet offline, requiring grid operator ERCOT to institute widespread blackouts to prevent the risk of a further grid collapse.  About 4.3 million utility customers, approximately one-third of the state’s electric customers, were without power in Texas as of Tuesday morning, up from about 2.5 million on Monday morning, accord...

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

Published Feb. 17, 2021 Share it The following is a contributed article by Kenneth W. Costello, a regulatory economist and independent consultant who has worked for the National Regulatory Research Institute, the Illinois Commerce Commission and Argonne National Laboratory. With deepening concerns over climate change, policymakers, electric utilities and environmentalists are championing the idea of "electrification," notably for the replacement of fossil fuels with...

Published: 17 Feb 2021, 13:01 By: Andy Colthorpe Developer Invenergy has built some of the US largest renewable energy facilities including hybrids paired with battery storage. Image: Invenergy-Sinexcel. The US state of Wisconsin’s first large-scale solar farm only went online in late 2020, but electric and gas delivery holding company WEC Energy Group has just proposed plans for a 310MW solar power plant with 110MW of battery storage. The proposal for the Paris Solar-Battery Par...

Published: 17 Feb 2021, 14:30 By: Editor A 20MW / 18MWh containerised battery energy storage solution in Switzerland, which went online late last year. IHS Markit predicts that while the US will dominate this year and the Asia-Pacific region will rapidly grow market share in the coming years, Europe will see a growth in installations year-on-year of about 70% in 2021. Image: MW Storage AG. Analysis and research firm IHS Markit has predicted that over 10GW of new energy storage wil...

By: Andy Colthorpe New York has some of the most aggressive clean energy policy goals in the world via its Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, targeting decarbonisation of its electricity sector by 2040. Energy storage is expected to play a vital role, with the Act introduced by Governor Andrew Cuomo including a target of 3GW of storage deployment by 2030 to support the transition away from reliance on fossil fuels. New York Power Authority (NYPA), a public power organisation whic...

Published: 16 Feb 2021, 13:30 By: Molly Lempriere SMS managing director John Hall (left) and head of supply chain Phil Norrish (right) at the companys 50MW site in Cambridgeshire, east England. Image: SMS. Smart energy infrastructure company SMS has begun construction on its first battery energy storage project in the UK. The 50MW battery storage development in Burwell, Cambridgeshire will be followed later this month by construction of a 40MW storage site in Barnsley, South Yorks...

Published: 16 Feb 2021, 08:03 By: Andy Colthorpe Redflow ZBM2 energy storage unit in left foreground. Australian government minister Paul Fletcher (centre) visited the companys offices earlier this month with Cameron Penfold, regional sales director for Optus (left) and Redflow manging director Tim Harris (right). Image: Redflow. Dozens of zinc-bromine flow battery units will be deployed at 56 remote telecommunications stations in Australia, supplied by manufacturer Redflow. They ...