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By: 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 Aus...

Published: 6 Apr 2021, 08:35 By: 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 Afr...

Published: 1 Apr 2021, 07:05 By: 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 repai...

Published: 1 Apr 2021, 13:48 By: 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 ...

Published: 17 Mar 2021, 11:29 By: A Convergent Energy + Power project in Ontario, Canada. Image: Convergent Energy + Power. Energy storage project developer Convergent Energy + Power has contracted GE Renewable Energy to supply key equipment to a three-site large-scale solar-plus-storage hybrid resource project in New York State. GE Renewable Energy announced the contract earlier this week and said it will be providing an integrated solar inverter and energy storage system to the DC-coupled project, which includes 123MWh of energy storage. GE is also providing Convergent Energy ...