Published: 6 Apr 2021, 08:24
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Andy Colthorpe
Solar modules at Granny Smith mine, Australia, a project Aggreko completed and announced in October last year. Image: Aggreko.
The first battery energy storage system deployed to help stabilise the electricity grid in Turkey could help show the country’s energy sector that more rapid uptake of renewable energy can be feasible and cost-effective.
Scotland-headquartered multinational power solutions company Aggreko has recently completed work on a project in the north of Turkey, installing a 500kW / 500kWh lithium-ion battery storage system near a substation which will help local grid infrastructure near the town of Alaca to deliver reliable electricity, smoothing out peaks in supply and demand.
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Product Manager
While 2020 may have been and gone, the strange times we re collectively experiencing certainly have not. Looking back at least gives us an opportunity to reflect on the lessons learned during the past year or so and Aaroh Kharaya, product manager at solar PV and battery storage quality assurance, supply chain management and engineering services firm Clean Energy Associates takes us through his top takeaways from a time that we may otherwise seek to forget.
The last 12 months likely won’t be remembered with fondness by many. We’ve witnessed horrific wildfires in Australia and California, disruptive extreme weather in Texas, global political unrest, and of course COVID-19. I watched ‘Death to 2020’ on Netflix recently, and while it’s a dark and satirical comedy, it highlights the difficult times that we face as a global community.
Published: 6 Apr 2021, 08:35
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Andy Colthorpe
Enerox s Cellcube battery storage paired with solar generation at a commercial and industrial project site. Image: Cellcube-Enerox.
South African vanadium producer Bushveld Minerals is investing US$7.5 million in vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) energy storage company Enerox, which is planning to scale up its manufacturing capabilities.
Bushveld is among the consortium, Enerox Holdings Limited, that owns Enerox, which makes and markets its energy storage systems from offices in Austria under the brand name Cellcube. The South African company, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, said it has already put US$5 million towards Enerox’s US$30 million plan to reach annual production output and sales of 30MW / 120MW - 240MWh by 2022.
Published: 1 Apr 2021, 07:05
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President Joe Biden photographed in pre-pandemic days, January 2020. Image: Flickr user Phil Roeder.
A plan proposed by US president Joe Biden to invest US$2 trillion in infrastructure has been praised for “prioritising energy storage and policies that support the industry’s growth”.
Unveiled by Biden alongside vice president Kamala Harris yesterday, the American Jobs Plan is part of the Build Back Better agenda, a strategy that Biden has referred to as an “updated social contract” to drive forward economic recovery post-COVID and repair structural weaknesses and inequalities in the “old economy”.
Its cost would be equivalent to about 1% of America’s GDP per year over eight years and was described in White House communications as consisting “principally of one-time capital investments in our nation’s productivity and long-term growth”. One of the chief mechanisms for paying for it that the administration has pr
Published: 1 Apr 2021, 13:48
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Andy Colthorpe
The California Flats project site, with the solar PV plant behind the area being prepared for installation of the Tesla Megapacks. Image: Apple.
While it is better known for putting lithium-ion batteries in phones, tablets and computers, consumer technology company Apple said it is building a 240MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at a solar PV plant in California.
The company said yesterday (31 March 2021) that it is adding the large-scale battery system at California Flats, an existing PV plant complex in southeast Monterey County on cattle ranch land owned by media services company Hearst. The solar project was developed by vertically-integrated thin-film solar module manufacturer First Solar and sold to asset management firm Capital Dynamics in August 2017, shortly before the first of two phases reached commercial operations in December of that year.