energy storage project Articles
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Farah Hospital to save 416,085 USD per year with TES solution - Case Study
ARANER, is not only the leading company in Turbine Inlet Air Cooling and innovative District Cooling Solutions, but has also designed and implemented some of the world’s biggest Thermal Energy Storage Systems. Just as we did with Farah Hospital located in Amman (Jordan), which is considered the biggest and most prestigious hospital in the Middle East. We take on each Thermal Energy Storage ...
By Araner
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Renewable energy storage - Project references - Case study
Green-field Pumped Hydro Storage Plant Project in Belgium Rent-A-Port Green Energy working in association with other private and public partners develops a 150 MW greenfield pumped storage project in Belgium. The project aims to set a new benchmark for the flexibility of pumped hydro storage, and uses mid-scale variable speed asynchronous pump-turbines in conjunction with batteries. It ...
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TROES Partners on Gas Generator & Energy Storage Project
TROES Corp, a battery energy storage systems manufacturer, won the opportunity to develop a system for a gas generator in Ontario. The BESS solution will feature TROES’ newly developed Microgrid Controller & Life Cycle Health Management technology. This project is fully funded by the client to increase the traditional power operation efficiency and save on cost in the long term. This is ...
By TROES Corp.
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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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Reverse DC-Coupled PV+Storage
In 2018, Dynapower deployed the first DC-DC converter in a DC-coupled PV+S (PV + storage) configuration at an existing utility-scale PV+S installation. Since then, the innovative solar-plus-storage solution has gained traction due to the ability of DC-coupled PV+S to increase PV energy capture and decrease the costs as compared to AC-coupled energy storage solutions. Recent reports from IHS ...
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Pumped hydro storage softens blow of wind imbalance penalties
Quarry Battery is developer of the £160 million ($249.2 million) Glyn Rhonwy pumped hydro facility in Wales which will be the UK’s first grid-scale electricity storage facility for decades. The facility will produce nearly 50 MW of electricity using pumped hydro technology. As more fossil fuel-fired generation is taken offline and wind capacity grows, grid operators will ask wind ...
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US plant shutdowns, grid focus drive storage growth: Greensmith CEO
Power plant closures and hiking transmission costs are driving up US utilities’ investment in renewable energy storage, John Jung, CEO of Greensmith, an energy storage services firm, told Wind Energy Update. Some 60 GW of US coal-fired capacity is set to close between 2012 and 2020, according to the EIA. Nuclear plant lifespans will end and the US plans $180bn in planned transmission ...
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Cerro Dominador CSP developer plans larger plants in Chile
The ground-breaking 110 MW Cerro Dominador CSP plant could start commissioning by end of 2019 and the fund-owned developer is studying larger projects at three other sites in northern Chile, Francisco Vizcaino, Project Director at Cerro Dominador, told New Energy Update. After a troubled start, Latin America's first utility-scale CSP plant is now in the final stages of construction. Located ...
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Con Edison to pilot $15M virtual power plant project
New York utility Consolidated Edison (Con Edison) plans to launch a pilot virtual power plant (VPP) project in June to test out the business case for integrating aggregated fleets of residential solar-plus-storage systems into the grid, Jamie Brennan, director of demonstration projects at Con Edison, told Energy Storage Update. The project will link hundreds of solar and battery storage systems ...
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If Cobalt is So Bad, Why are Some Companies Still Using it in Batteries? Part 1
The terrible consequences of cobalt mining and usage are both well documented and heartbreaking. Devastating environmental impacts from extration that render large swath of land unusuable and polluted waterways. Children forced to work in dangerous and claustrophobic 'artisanal' mines (a truly sinister euphemism). Toxicity, lung disease, heart failure, and cancer from exposure, even ...
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Why microgrids are an effective business resilience option for building owners
As companies across the globe push to embrace sustainable energy models, they are adding solar generating assets to their facilities as a way of reducing fossil fuel consumption and carbon footprint. The increased deployment of renewable solar energy sources is acting as one of the key energy market drivers. According to the analyst firm MarketsandMarkets, the global microgrid market is projected ...
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