Mobile Energy Storage News
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TotalEnergies Starts Up in Texas a 380 MW Utility-Scale Solar Power Plant with Battery Storage
TotalEnergies has started commercial operations of Myrtle Solar, its utility-scale operated solar farm in the United States. Located south of Houston, Texas, Myrtle has a capacity of 380 megawatts peak (MWp) of solar production and 225 MWh of co-located batteries. With 705,000 ground-mounted photovoltaic panels installed over an area equivalent to 1,800 American football fields, Myrtle produces ...
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EnergyHub and Fermata Energy Partner to Enable Utilities to Accelerate EVs as Grid-Edge Resources
Grid-tied electric vehicles are batteries on wheels that can support grid resilience. To accelerate the deployment of vehicle-to-grid installations, EnergyHub, an industry’s leading grid-edge DERMS provider, and Fermata Energy, a leading V2G services provider, have partnered to accelerate utilities’ access to EVs as mobile distributed energy resources (DERs). As vehicles and buildings rapidly ...
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Wärtsilä and Eolian Complete the Largest Merchant Battery System in the World at 200 MW
The technology group Wärtsilä has reached commercial operation date (COD) for two major interconnected energy storage systems in South Texas totaling 200 MW and owned by Eolian L.P. (Eolian), a portfolio company of Global Infrastructure Partners. The Madero and Ignacio energy storage plants will be operated using Eolian software, enabling full participation in the Electric Reliability Council of ...
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U.S. Department Of Energy Announces $43 Million for Clean Energy Transition in Communities
The U.S. Department of Energy this week announced $43 million for 23 projects to help communities plan their transition to a clean energy future and improve grid reliability and security. Twenty research projects will focus on increasing communities' resilience to disruptions from extreme weather and other disasters, and three will focus on building tools to help communities better evaluate and ...
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Report Outlines Investors' Views on How to Unlock the Hydrogen Economy
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has published a report on investors' views on how the public sector can help to address the risks and challenges of the move towards a more hydrogen-fuelled economy. The report's findings are based on consultations by the EIB's Advisory Services with nearly 50 market participants, at the request of the European Commission under the InnovFin Advisory programme. ...
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C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute Announces AI for Energy and Climate Security Grantees
C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (C3.ai DTI) recently announced the second round of C3.ai DTI awards, focused on using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and digital transformation to advance energy efficiency and lead the way to a lower-carbon, higher-efficiency economy that will ensure energy and climate security. C3.ai DTI issued this call for proposals in February 2021, and ...
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EV Connect to Help Expand California Charging Infrastructure Under $436M EV Program
Building on its success in the $22M Southern California Edison Charge Ready pilot program, EV Connect, a software-as-a-service company, announced it is an Approved Network Provider in the $436M Charge Ready program from SCE. As an approved network provider for Charge Ready, EV Connect will participate in one of the country's most advanced utility-driven EV charging infrastructure initiatives and ...
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Wärtsilä to Supply U.S. City with GridSolv Quantum Energy Storage System
The technology group Wärtsilä will supply its next generation energy storage system to AEP OnSite Partners to serve the City of Martinsville, Virginia, USA. Together with a 10-year Wärtsilä Guaranteed asset performance agreement, the system is estimated to provide substantial savings to the city. AEP OnSite Partners, a U.S. based provider of customer centric distributed ...
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Customers Power Through Outages with Energize CA
In 2019, Energize CA was SimpliPhi Power’s answer to provide timely, affordable relief from widespread power outages during California’s Public Safety Power Shutoffs and fire season. The overwhelming response from people in need of critical back-up power caused the company to reintroduce the campaign in 2020, again offering discounted pricing and expedited shipping on their line of ...
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Hitachi ABB Power Grids Commences Operations
In accordance with the agreement signed on December 17, 20181, Hitachi Ltd. and ABB Ltd this week announced the completion of all required procedures as planned, and the formation of Hitachi ABB Power Grids Ltd. Hitachi has an 80.1 percent stake in this new joint venture entity (which has business volume of approximately 10 billion USD2) and ABB holds the balance. Toshikazu Nishino, Executive ...
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SimpliPhi Power Teams Up with Footprint Project to Deliver Clean Energy Microgrid to Field Hospital for Matamoros Migrant Camp Fighting COVID-19
SimpliPhi Power, a leading U.S. manufacturer of safe, cobalt-free lithium ion energy storage systems, has partnered with non-profit Footprint Project to supply and deliver a clean energy microgrid field hospital for the Matamoros migrant camp in Mexico on the U.S. border to power the camp’s first mobile medical ICU to treat COVID-19 patients. The camp is comprised of approximately 3,000 ...
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Saft Wins Order For ‘Largest Ever’ Intensium Max 20 High Energy Storage Batteries From Tuuliwatti
SAFT, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Total, has won an order for three Intensium Max 20 High Energy battery storage containers from TuuliWatti, the Finnish wind developer and operator. The Lithium-Ion (Li-ion) energy storage system (ESS) will support frequency regulation at a 21MW wind farm in northwestern Finland. It will also optimize the wind power, as well as provide backup and black start ...
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SimpliPhi Power and Heila Technologies Announce Distributed Intelligent Network Microgrid Solution
SimpliPhi Power, a California manufacturer of non-toxic, safe, residential, commercial and mobile energy storage systems, has partnered with Heila Technologies, a developer of software and hardware that integrates diverse generation and storage assets into microgrids, to deliver a dynamic platform that aggregates multiple customer-cited SimpliPhi battery systems into a ...
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Schneider Electric Microgrid to Service Long Beach, California Community by Creating Energy Resilience at Port
Schneider Electric recently (10/10) announced an agreement to design, engineer and build a new microgrid that will enable critical energy resilience at the Port of Long Beach in the city of Long Beach, California. Schneider Electric will create a microgrid technology demonstration which will include an integrated system of distributed energy resources (DER) and microgrid controls, enabling added ...
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Dowell Promote its Energy Storage Products to International Market
In the middle of this month, delegations from the United Kingdom and Thailand went to Changzhou factory. Accompanied by the staff of the International Department, they visited the product line independently developed by Dowell. In response to the customer's greatest concern for large-scale project capabilities and customization capabilities, the engineers introduced the large-scale energy storage ...
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Lockheed Martin Selected to Provide GridStar Energy Storage for New ComEd Microgrid Project in Chicago
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) signed an agreement to supply a GridStar Lithium energy storage system to ComEd, Illinois' largest electric utility. The 2 MWh system will be integrated into ComEd's Bronzeville community microgrid project in Chicago. A microgrid is a small power grid with defined boundaries that can operate both when connected to the larger electrical grid and as an "island" when ...
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Greensmith Energy Software Selected by Oncor to Enhance Existing Microgrid
Greensmith Energy recently announced that Oncor Electric Delivery has selected Greensmith as the software provider for its microgrid facility in Dallas, Texas. Oncor's advanced microgrid consists of: a carport PV array, ground mount PV array, microturbine, diesel generators, gas reciprocating generator and battery storage unit. The software upgrade and installation is considered a milestone for ...
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Frost & Sullivan: Energy Storage is the Answer to Looming Power Shortages
The significant shortfall in electricity supply within the next three years highlighted by Ofgem in its latest report presents a strong case for energy storage technologies as they can de-couple production and consumption of electricity by creating a buffer. Electrical power generation in the UK has been facing many challenges in the last decade. Some of the most critical include: reduction in ...
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MHI Develops Japan`s First Easy-to-move Cargo Container-type Large-capacity Energy Storage System, Using Lithium-ion Rechargeable Battery
Tokyo, June 16, 2011 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., (MHI), has developed Japan's first cargo container-type large-capacity energy storage system that uses a lithium-ion rechargeable battery. The system is capable of providing power of up to one megawatts (MW), and its mobility makes the system suitable for a wide range of applications, including emergency use. The actual ...
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