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Published: 26 Apr 2021, 14:06 By: Editor Hitachi ABB Power Grids supplied and integrated a 30MW BESS for the Energy Storage for Commercial Renewable Integration (ESCRI) project in South Australia (pictured). Image: Hitachi ABB Power Grids. Hitachi ABB Power Grids has signed a collaboration agreement on battery energy storage for renewable energy projects in the Americas, with Atlas Renewable Energy. The pair will jointly develop and deploy utility-scale battery energy storage syst...

Published: 26 Apr 2021, 08:20 By: Image: Con Edison via Twitter. To reduce strain on the grid as renewable power and demand both grow, two New York utility companies have awarded contracts for flexible demand management to commercial and industrial (C&I) energy management specialist CPower. CPower announced last week that Con Edison and National Grid subsidiary Niagra Mohawk Power Corporation have selected the company among providers of Dynamic Load Management (DLM) to their netwo...

Published: 26 Apr 2021, 10:15 By: Image: CleanCapital. US$300 million in new funding from Manulife Investment Management will enable CleanCapital, a clean energy investment platform mostly focused on distributed solar, to also provide “long-term, flexible capital” to energy storage developers. Our sister site PV Tech reported last week that CleanCapital had secured the funding to help grow its asset portfolio, coming as CleanCapital bought two renewable energy portfolios total...

Published: 22 Apr 2021, 12:49 By: Aerial view of Voltalias Mana project on French Guiana. Image: Voltalia. Paris-headquartered renewable energy power producer Voltalia has begun construction of a 32MW / 32MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in the UK.  Hallen, a lithium-ion battery asset, is to be located near the city of Bristol in the Avonmouth area of south-west England comprising 16 modules of 2MWh unit capacity each. These modules are to be stacked on site to ...

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Published: 21 Apr 2021, 11:01 By: Andy Colthorpe Fluence launched its 6th generation of energy storage systems solutions during 2020 including Edgestack, the companys first product suite aimed at the commercial and industrial (C&I) market. Image: Fluence. Energy storage technology provider Fluence and battery gigafactory startup Northvolt will collaborate to develop “next-generation battery technology for grid-scale storage applications,” the companies said today. The co-devel...

“The delivery and operation of this project provides an important opportunity for us to demonstrate the capabilities of battery storage technology and to learn valuable lessons for projects in development,” added Wünschel. “Strategically, the operation of our first project means that not only are we a leading company in wind and solar power, we have capabilities in battery storage technology that can help safely manage fluctuations in the grid due to the intermittent feed-in of renewable...

Published: 15 Apr 2021, 06:48 By: Andy Colthorpe The basics of how a community microgrid built under the scheme would work to supply customers and critical facilities like hospitals in the event of outages or PSPS events. Image: PG&E. Communities at risk of losing their electricity supply in the service area of California utility PG&E when disasters strike are being supported in developing their own microgrids through a new scheme announced by the utility this week. PG&E, one of C...

Published: 14 Apr 2021, 12:03 By: Editor Eos battery stack display at the Solar Power International trade show in 2018. Image: Andy Colthorpe / Solar Media. Eos Energy Enterprises, the NASDAQ-listed designer and manufacturer of energy storage systems based on the company’s aqueous zinc battery technology, has announced three large-scale projects in the US and India. While the company did not give full details including sizing and capacity of each project, it did name the custome...

Published: 14 Apr 2021, 14:40 By: Jules Scully As with Statkrafts first 11MW Kilathmoy battery project in Ireland, systems technology at Kelwin-2 (pictured) was provided by Fluence. Image: Statkraft. Norwegian utility Statkraft has completed the construction of its second large-scale battery storage project in the Republic of Ireland. The 26MW Kelwin-2 installation is located in Tarbert, County Kerry, and will be used to respond instantly to the electrical frequency fluctuations t...