Long Duration Energy Storage News
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U.S. Department of Energy Announces Clean Energy Achievements at COP28
This week, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy David M. Turk traveled to Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the 28th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), where he led the U.S. energy delegation. The Department of Energy announced a range of initiatives - on issues from clean hydrogen and nuclear energy to zero-emissions transportation and building ...
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Hydrogen energy crucial to a climate-neutral future
Recognising the increasing importance of hydrogen to decarbonisation of the energy supply, Axpo has published a white paper on the role and potential of hydrogen in Switzerland. Axpo uses the latest data to demonstrate the economic viability and potential uses of hydrogen as an energy source. The paper also takes a critical look at the key challenges facing the hydrogen economy in ...
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CMBlu Energy Receives $106.7 Million Strategic Growth Investment from STRABAG SE
CMBlu Energy (CMBlu), a designer and manufacturer of long-duration Organic SolidFlow battery storage systems, announced that STRABAG SE, the global infrastructure technology group, is making a $106.7 million equity investment in CMBlu. The new capital will accelerate CMBlu's battery development and manufacturing scale-up, while cementing strategic alignment with STRABAG's construction and ...
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SRP Board Approves System Plan Strategies
SRP's District Board of Directors this week (Oct 2) approved power system strategies to be implemented between 2025 and 2035 that prioritize affordability, reliability, sustainability and customer focus. The strategies are outlined in SRP's new Integrated System Plan, which was developed as part of a two-year, data-driven planning process that incorporated perspectives from Arizona universities, ...
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Department of Energy Awards Xcel Energy Up to $70 million for Long Duration Energy Storage
Xcel Energy announced this week (Sept 22) it has received a grant of up to $70 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The award will partially fund two long duration energy storage systems in Minnesota and Colorado. Each demonstration-scale system will be a 10 megawatt/1,000 megawatt-hour iron-air battery developed by Massachusetts-based Form Energy. The batteries will be located at ...
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ESS Commissions First Iron Flow Battery Deployment for Sacramento Municipal Utility District
ESS Tech, Inc., a leading manufacturer of long-duration energy storage systems (LDES) for commercial and utility-scale applications, this week announced that it has completed commissioning of six Energy Warehouse™ systems delivered to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), the nation’s sixth-largest community-owned electric service provider. The six Energy Warehouse™ systems represent ...
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PNNL: The Future of Grid Energy Storage Starts Today
by JoAnna Wendel, PNNL In a decarbonized, electrified future, next-generation batteries will improve the reliability and resilience of the electrical grid while allowing increased integration of renewable energy. These batteries will also be able to provide backup power during or after natural disasters, like ice storms, extreme heat waves, hurricanes, and more. A new facility called the Grid ...
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Salt River Project and CMBlu Energy Announce Launch of Innovative Energy Storage Project
Salt River Project, a community-based, not-for-profit public power utility and the largest electricity provider in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, and CMBlu Energy, a designer and manufacturer of long-duration Organic SolidFlow energy storage systems, announced a pilot project to deploy long-duration energy storage (LDES) in the Phoenix area. The 5-megawatt (MW), 10-hour-duration project, ...
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Eos Energy Enterprises Announces Project AMAZE,' a $500M Program to Address Storage Demand
Eos Energy Enterprises, a leading provider of zinc-powered long-duration stationary energy storage systems, this week (Aug 31) announced Project AMAZE American Made Zinc Energy, a $500 million planned expansion and a significant milestone to build 8 GWh of clean energy storage production capacity. Project AMAZE supports Eos' strategy to address increased long-duration energy storage demand driven ...
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Data Show Clean Power Increasing, Fossil Fuel Decreasing in California
Data from the California Energy Commission (CEC) highlight California's continued progress toward building a more resilient grid, achieving 100 percent clean electricity and meeting the state's carbon neutrality goals. Analysis of the state's Total System Electric Generation report shows how California's power mix has changed over the last decade. Since 2012: Solar generation increased nearly ...
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Ambri Advances Collaboration with Xcel Energy for First Utility Deployment of Liquid Metal Battery
Ambri's Liquid Metal battery system has taken a major step on the pathway to commercialization, after the company signed its first agreement with a utility provider. Xcel Energy and Ambri will jointly test the 300kWh system at SolarTAC in Aurora, Colorado, for a period of 12 months, enabling a comprehensive evaluation of its capabilities and performance. Installation of the system is expected to ...
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Ambri Advances Collaboration with Xcel Energy for First Utility Deployment of Liquid Metal™ Battery System
Ambri’s Liquid Metal™ battery system has taken a major step on the pathway to commercialization, after the company signed its first agreement with a utility provider. Xcel Energy and Ambri will jointly test the 300kWh system at SolarTAC in Aurora, Colorado, for a period of 12 months, enabling a comprehensive evaluation of its capabilities and performance. Installation of the system ...
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Biden Administration Releases First-Ever National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap
The Biden Administration this week (June 5) released the U.S. National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap, a comprehensive framework for accelerating the production, processing, delivery, storage, and use of clean hydrogen a versatile and flexible energy carrier that can be produced with low or zero carbon emissions. Achieving commercial-scale hydrogen deployment is a key component of President ...
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Redflow to Supply Transformative 20 MWh Flow Battery System for Project in California
Redflow Limited, a global leader in clean energy storage, announced this week that its sustainable flow batteries have been funded and approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC) for a large-scale solar and storage project, which will provide power for the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians. The 20 MWh system will be one of the largest zinc-based battery projects in the world and will ...
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Redflow to supply transformative 20 MWh flow battery system for project in California
Redflow Limited (ASX: RFX), a global leader in clean energy storage, announced today that its safe, scalable, and sustainable flow batteries have been funded and approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC) for a large-scale solar and storage project, which will provide power for the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians. The 20 MWh system will be one of the largest zinc-based battery projects ...
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Bayer and Cat Creek Energy Sign Landmark Renewable Energy Deal
Bayer, a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of health care and nutrition, and Cat Creek Energy (CCE), a renewable energy Independent Power Producer, today announced a long-term Structured Renewable Energy Credit (REC) Purchase Agreement that will satisfy Bayer´s renewable electricity needs and lead to the construction by CCE of multiple variable renewable ...
By Bayer AG
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ESS Partners with Coldwell Solar to Power California Wineries with Clean Energy
ESS Tech, Inc., a leading manufacturer of long-duration energy storage systems for commercial and utility-scale applications, this week (April 12) announced that it will deliver three Energy Warehouse systems to Coldwell Solar, a major developer and builder of renewable energy projects for California's commercial, agricultural and utility sectors. The systems will be installed in a solar + ...
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Clean Power Alliance Approves LDES Project with NextEra Energy Resources' Desert Sands Facility
The Clean Power Alliance (CPA) Board of Directors has approved a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, for a 75 megawatt long-duration standalone energy storage project. The project is located at NextEra's Desert Sands Energy Storage facility in Riverside County, California. CPA will begin storing and discharging energy from the facility in June 2026. The ...
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Department of Energy Announces Partnership to Accelerate Commercialization of LDES
The U.S. Department of Energy and partners this week (March 8) announced progress toward a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at accelerating the commercialization of long-duration energy storage (LDES). Parties to the MOU, announced during CERAWeek, are the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions, the Edison Electric Institutes' Institute for the Energy Transition, EPRI, ...
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DOE Breaks Ground on Concentrating Solar Power Pilot Culminating $100 Million Research Effort
The U.S. Department of Energy celebrated the groundbreaking of its Generation 3 concentrating solar-thermal pilot facility at Sandia National Laboratories. This demonstration is the culmination of a $100 million research effort to develop next-generation concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) plants and showcase storage technology that could provide one gigawatt of storage for one hour at a ...
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