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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...

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...

Published: 5 Mar 2021, 13:45 By: Andy Colthorpe Another solar-plus-storage project on a former municipal landfill site in Massachusets, executed by Kearsage with NEC. Image: Kearsage. Stem Inc has completed a front-of-the-meter solar-plus-storage project in Massachusetts that will participate in New England’s wholesale markets run by system operator New England ISO. The company is better known for deploying behind-the-meter battery storage for commercial and industrial (C&I) cus...

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Image: ScottishPower. There are numerous benefits from collocating battery energy storage with wind power, including grid availability and planning ease. Speaking at Solar Media’s Energy Storage Summit 2021, Tony Gannon, head of project management at ScottishPower Renewables explained how the company had chosen to take advantage of a number of these efficiencies for its 539MW Whitelee Wind Farm. Whitelee is a 50MW/50MWh storage project, which is collocating liquid cooled lithium-ion batterie...

Published: 4 Mar 2021, 11:23 By: Deputy Editor Pivot Powers Kemsley battery storage site was one of 17 successful assets to clear in the T-1 Capacity Market auction. Image: EDF/Pivot Power. The Capacity Market T-1 auction cleared at a record high price in the UK this week, with 17 batteries winning spots. This was a sizeable jump from last year, when just two assets managed to secure spots, as the role of renewables and storage continues to grow in the country. A total kDe-Rated Ca...

Published: 4 Mar 2021, 13:50 By: Andy Colthorpe AES Alamitos 100MW / 400MWh project in California; the first instance of four-hour duration battery storage commissioned as a direct replacement for natural gas peaking capacity. Image: AES Corporation. The US’ installations of advanced energy storage — almost entirely lithium-ion battery systems — went beyond the 1GW mark in 2020, while in capacity terms the figure was close to 3.5GWh. Research firm Wood Mackenzie Power & Rene...