utility-scale renewable Articles
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Project - RES Offshore
Customer: RES Offshore Context: RES-Offshore offers integrated development, engineering, construction and AO&M services for utility-scale renewable energy projects. Challenge: RES Offshore needed a long wave time series for a location offshore northern Scotland. Solution: Open Ocean provided them with the main wave parameters from a proprietary wave numerical simulation covering the ...
By Open Ocean
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Creating Renewable Energy Integration Solutions
Integrating Renewable Energy Sources Into the Grid How can we respond to demands for both clean energy and greater energy security? By integrating renewable energy sources like wind and solar into the grid. As the power sector faces growing pressure to decarbonize and diversify its resources, we're witnessing a major transition away from traditional fossil fuels. To advance clean air standards ...
By Lumin
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The unconventional wisdom on renewable energy and investment
Over the summer, there has been a loud buzz in the media about the need for research and development that would lead to a breakthrough in the cost of clean energy technologies. Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf called for a “moonshot to save the planet” building on the proposal of noted academics and senior industry executives for an “Apollo mission” to put the ...
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Statoil backs wind storage; LG Chem eyes Australia growth
Battery maker LG Chem plans to expand its footprint in the Australian residential solar and battery storage market, the company announced on March 24, citing the “exponential traction” for its RESU6.4EX residential energy storage system in Australia and the “untapped opportunity” for solar energy storage in the country. LG Chem launched its lithium-ion 6.4 kWh RESU6.4EX ...
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Flocking to a Utility-Scale PV O&M Solution
Operating and maintaining a utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant is a time-consuming and expensive proposition. However, there’s been a unique innovation in PV plant operation – though it comes from a simple and decidedly old-school source. Sheep’s New Role in Lowering PV Plant Operations and Maintenance Costs You read that correctly. Sheep are now being used for ...
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Innovations in monitoring & field control pave the way for PV plant optimization
PV Insider - hear the latest challenges and solutions for improving monitoring and field control for large scale PV plants With large-scale PV development taking shape in the United States, maximizing the output of utility scale PV plants is vital for developers and utilities alike. The critical drivers for utility scale projects lay in the increasing size of plants, the need to export the ...
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Designing renewable contracts that value CSP storage
As California ramps up its storage requirements, it has not included Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) with integrated energy storage. Instead it is testing pilot projects using batteries at utility-scale, even though it must be obvious to bean counters at utilities that batteries are never going to compete with utility scale CSP storage. By Susan Kraemer The 32 MWh battery storage pilot for ...
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