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Published: 5 Mar 2021, 13:45 By: Andy Colthorpe Another solar-plus-storage project on a former municipal landfill site in Massachusets, executed by Kearsage with NEC. Image: Kearsage. Stem Inc has completed a front-of-the-meter solar-plus-storage project in Massachusetts that will participate in New England’s wholesale markets run by system operator New England ISO. The company is better known for deploying behind-the-meter battery storage for commercial and industrial (C&I) customers, using Stem’s proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) platforms and software to coordinate...

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Image: ScottishPower. There are numerous benefits from collocating battery energy storage with wind power, including grid availability and planning ease. Speaking at Solar Media’s Energy Storage Summit 2021, Tony Gannon, head of project management at ScottishPower Renewables explained how the company had chosen to take advantage of a number of these efficiencies for its 539MW Whitelee Wind Farm. Whitelee is a 50MW/50MWh storage project, which is collocating liquid cooled lithium-ion batteries with the UK’s largest onshore windfarm near Glasgow, Scotland. Plans for the battery were appr...

Published: 4 Mar 2021, 11:23 By: Deputy Editor Pivot Power's Kemsley battery storage site was one of 17 successful assets to clear in the T-1 Capacity Market auction. Image: EDF/Pivot Power. The Capacity Market T-1 auction cleared at a record high price in the UK this week, with 17 batteries winning spots. This was a sizeable jump from last year, when just two assets managed to secure spots, as the role of renewables and storage continues to grow in the country. A total kDe-Rated Capacity of 2252.116MW was procured by National Grid ESO, just shy of the target announced by the Dep...

Published: 4 Mar 2021, 13:50 By: Andy Colthorpe AES' Alamitos 100MW / 400MWh project in California; the first instance of four-hour duration battery storage commissioned as a direct replacement for natural gas peaking capacity. Image: AES Corporation. The US’ installations of advanced energy storage — almost entirely lithium-ion battery systems — went beyond the 1GW mark in 2020, while in capacity terms the figure was close to 3.5GWh. Research firm Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables’ quarterly US Energy Storage Monitor report which forecasts, then records and analyses ene...