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Posted on 4 hours ago 8 min read On June 1, a new model of electricity bill will come into force for consumers covered by the Voluntary Price for the Small Consumer (PVPC) that will promote energy savings, efficiency, self-consumption and the deployment of the electric vehicle.   With this change, the access tolls to the electricity sector are being replaced by two new concepts: the transport and distribution tolls, which are set by the CNMC and which cover the costs of using the electricity...

Published: 5 May 2021, 15:25 By: Onsite solar PV generation at Googles data centre in Saint Ghislain, Belgium. Image: Google. Google will procure energy from a US$600 million portfolio of renewables and energy storage assets specially-designed to enable the search engine company’s data centres in Virginia to run on 90% carbon-free electricity. Data centres represent about 1% of the entire world’s energy usage and while Google became carbon neutral as far back as 2007, the comp...

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: 4 May 2021, 13:47 By: Andy Colthorpe Stillwater Wind, an 80MW project in Montana developed by Talen Energys renewable JV partner Pattern Energy that went into action in 2018. Image: Pattern Energy via Twitter. Talen Energy Corporation, a US power and infrastructure development group with 13GW of mostly fossil fuel assets in its portfolio to date has said that it is developing a gigawatt of battery storage projects. The company’s existing generation mix of assets under...

The go-to resource for in-depth news, analysis, blogs and more on the international energy storage industry

By: CEO The past decade has seen solar energy leading the way towards a future of affordable clean energy for all. Now, with a little more innovation and a lot more deployment, batteries, whether in electric vehicles or as stationary energy storage systems (ESS), will enable the rise of PV go into its next, even bigger growth phase, writes Radoslav Stompf, CEO of FUERGY, a solutions provider to help optimise energy consumption and maximise the efficiency of renewable energy sources.   Surg...

Published: 30 Apr 2021, 07:40 By: Schematic of a Hydrostor A-CAES project. Image: Hydrostor. California is facing a huge shortfall of electricity capacity on its grid and advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) can fill the gap, Hydrostor has proposed. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Hydrostor is the first company in the world to have built an operating commercial A-CAES plant, which came online in 2019 in Goderich, Ontario and offers several hours of long-duration stora...

Published: 29 Apr 2021, 10:09 By: Andy Colthorpe Commercial and industrial (C&I) battery storage from Stem Inc allows business to cut their electricity costs through peak shaving of demand charges levied on commercial customers in the US, while the systems can also be co-optimised to play into other opportunities such as grid services. Image: Stem Inc. Stem Inc’s shares begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange today, after the “artificial intelligence-driven clean energy s...

Published: 29 Apr 2021, 06:46 By: FlexGen battery storage project in Texas. Image: FlexGen. Energy storage system designer and integrator FlexGen has launched a new service that figures out the feasibility of pre-development projects using the company’s DigitalTwin technology. Aimed at developers, independent power producers (IPPs) and asset owners that are looking to develop standalone battery storage or add batteries to other generation, FlexGen’s project feasibility reports...