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Published: 15 Mar 2021, 10:50 By: Maroš Šefčovič (left), has long championed the European battery sector. Image: Maroš Šefčovič via LinkedIn. Europe is on course to become the world’s second-largest lithium-ion battery cell producing region by 2025, although some key challenges need to be addressed, a European Commission vice-president has said. Following a high-level ministerial meeting of the European Battery Alliance (EBA) — the continent’s multinational drive to ...

Published: 15 Mar 2021, 12:57 By: Andy Colthorpe Render of a large-scale energy storage project of the type Wärtsilä will deliver for Able Grid and its customer, a power producer. Wärtsilä built Texas Waves, one of the states first grid-scale storage projects, completed in early 2018. Image: Wärtsilä Corporation. Two standalone battery energy storage systems (BESS) totalling 200MW of output will be deployed in Texas’ ERCOT market by the energy division at Wärtsilä Corpor...

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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...

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