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” project is claimed as a first-of-its-kind for the Southeast Asia region and the 54MW / 32MWh of battery storage will be integrated with customer Therma Marine Inc’s (TMI’s) 100MW thermal power barge in the Maco municipality of the Philippines province Davao de Oro.
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’s 10kWh flow batteries will be installed as part of the microgrid setup at the Rialto Bioenergy Facility owned and operated by waste recovery company Anaergia in San Bernadino County, California.
The waste digester plant will be able to convert around 700 tonnes of organic waste and 300 tonnes of biosolids daily into renewable natural gas and fertiliser, diverting waste that comes from the Los Angeles and Southern California regions from going to landfills. As the Rialto Bioenergy Facilit
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 crisis turned into a public health crisis accompanied by a financial crisis as dozens of Texans lost their lives and estimates of economic damage soared into the tens of billions of dollars. The repercussions will be long felt.