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Published: 8 Feb 2021, 20:00 By: Andy Colthorpe The 50MW wind farm under construction near La Paz, Mexico. Image: Eurus Energy Group - Wärtsilä Corporation Wärtsilä Corporation has been contracted to install a 10MW battery energy storage system at a wind farm in Mexico, marking an expansion into the country for the energy solutions provider. Eolica Coromuel Wind Farm, around 38km from the city of La Paz, is a 50MW wind energy project under construction by Eurus Energy America ...

Published: 9 Feb 2021, 13:40 By: Andy Colthorpe Another recent black start project, delivered by FlexGen to an unnamed utility company in Indiana and announced as complete last summer. Image: FlexGen. When turbines at a natural gas power plant in California go offline, battery energy storage will be used as a ‘much cleaner alternative’ to diesel or other fossil fuels in getting them up and running again. Siemens Energy has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construct...

Published: 9 Feb 2021, 14:28 By: Andy Colthorpe Artist rendering of the 250MWh LAES project Highview is building near Manchester, UK. Image: Highview Power. A US$70 million funding round has been successfully closed by Highview Power, a UK-headquartered company which has developed a liquid air energy storage (LAES) system called the ‘CRYOBattery’. Highview’s proprietary technology is aimed at enabling bulk storage of electricity for grids safely and for long-durations, aidi...

Published: 8 Feb 2021, 02:53 By: Image: Southern Power. US wholesale energy provider Southern Power is adding battery energy storage to two solar sites in California. Storage will be added to the company’s Tranquillity Solar Facility and Garland Solar Facility, with Southern Power – a subsidiary of the Southern Company – also announcing it has signed 20 year power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Southern California Edison (SCE) for the two sites. At the 205MW Tranquillity S...

First published on Electric trucks will accelerate on delivery, research and absorption into fleets in 2021, even though experts doubt more than a few Class 8 trucks will be delivered to carriers. The electric truck is a crucial part of government and fleet plans to help decrease emissions. But implementation in the United States has been slow. In August, Wood Mackenzie estimated just over 2,000 electric trucks were in service at the end of 2019. The research firm said by 2025, the electric tru...

The Commission is in the process of updating some of the content on this website in light of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. If the site contains content that does not yet reflect the withdrawal of the United Kingdom, it is unintentional and will be addressed. Ambience H2020 prepares to launch a platform that will help ESCOs include demand side flexibility in their energy services offering 03 February 2021 Share this Post: The H2020 project AmBIENCe has ...

Published: 28 Jan 2021, 07:13 By: Molly Lempriere Social Energys AI-backed technology optimises an interconnected network of smart and clean energy assets, including participation in grid-services and balancing markets. Image: Social Energy. 27 January 2021: UK developer Eelpower partners up with infrastructure investor SUSI Partners  UK energy storage and renewables developer Eelpower has formed a joint venture (JV) with Switzerland-headquartered sustainable infrastructure inves...

Published: 26 Jan 2021, 04:52 By: Edith Hancock BNEFs report showed that energy storage investment was driven by growth in Asia Pacific and American markets, while EMEA funding slowed down. Image: BNEF Despite the fall in unit prices for energy storage, a total of US$3.6 billion of investment was committed to energy storage projects in 2020, around the same amount as in 2019. A new report from BloombergNEF looking at investment trends in the global energy transition found that sola...

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