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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.   Surging from just 7TWh of generated electricity in 2008 to 125TWh in 2019, solar power has fast become a...

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 storage which the company claims is reliable and affordable. The system has a 1.75MW discharge rating, 2....

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 storage services” company completed its business combination with special purpose acquisition compa...

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 (PFRs) take a virtual model of the planned installation and allow users to determine everything fro...