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Ameresco to Partner with the United States Coast Guard on Battery Energy Storage System Project

Ameresco, Inc., a leading cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, this week announced it has entered into a $43 million Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) with the United States Coast Guard (USCG) at the service's largest west coast training facility, Training Center (TRACEN) Petaluma. The project will be the USCG's first Battery Energy Storage System ...

Oct. 13, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer
Alfa Chemistry Catalysts: Porphyrin Ligands, Phthalocyanine Ligands Are Newly Released for the Science Community

With the development of coordination chemistry, the application of nitrogen-donor ligands has become more widespread. To meet the increasing demand arising from market and industry, Alfa Chemistry Catalysts announces the release of porphyrin ligands and phthalocyanine ligands, one type of nitrogen-donor ligands, for wide applications in fields like materials science, organic synthesis and ...

Oct. 20, 2021

By Alfa Chemistry
Energy leaders gather to challenge UK Government’s decarbonised gas strategy

Some of the UK’s most pioneering energy leaders gathered in Westminster today, to address the need to decarbonise the country’s gas system.The straight-talking closed group event explored the role of hydrogen in becoming a net zero nation, and the potential for the UK to lead transformational change on an international scale.Increased adoption of hydrogen would provide the country with a stable ...

Oct. 20, 2021

By Decarbonised Gas Alliance
PGE Plans To Nearly Triple Clean Resources By 2030

Portland General Electric this week shared plans to increase the amount of clean energy it serves to customers and meet its target of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power served to customers by at least 80%1 by 2030, 90% by 2035 and zero emissions by 2040. Tying together the need for more clean and renewable resources and plans for an upgraded grid to support those resources, PGE ...

Oct. 19, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer
World Energy Outlook 2021 Shows a New Energy Economy is Emerging

A new energy economy is emerging around the world as solar, wind, electric vehicles and other low-carbon technologies flourish. But as the pivotal moment of COP26 approaches, the IEA’s new World Energy Outlook makes it clear that this clean energy progress is still far too slow to put global emissions into sustained decline towards net zero, highlighting the need for an unmistakeable signal of ...

Oct. 18, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer
AutoGrid Announces $85M in Funding to Accelerate Deployment of Virtual Power Plants

AutoGrid Systems recently announced a sizable new round of funding to accelerate energy transition through adoption of electric vehicles, battery storage and renewables generation. SE Ventures, the $500 million venture capital fund based in California, established by industrial major Schneider Electric led the Series D-2 round. Other major funding came from new investors, which included Moore ...

Oct. 18, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer
SunPower and The New Home Company Create Sustainable, Energy Independent Community

SunPower Corp., a leading solar technology and energy services provider, and The New Home Company , a top 50 homebuilder focused on creating a new generation of innovative homes, this week announced that New Home is making solar systems, battery storage and at-home electric vehicle chargers standard features in its newest community, Eureka Grove. All 72 homes in the Granite Bay, California ...

Oct. 15, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer
DOE Invests $61 Million for Smart Buildings that Accelerate Renewable Energy Adoption

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week announced $61 million for 10 pilot projects that will deploy new technology to transform thousands of homes and workplaces into state-of-the-art, energy-efficient buildings. These Connected Communities can interact with the electrical grid to optimize their energy consumption which will substantially decrease their carbon emissions and cut energy ...

Oct. 14, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer
Massachusetts Electric School Bus Helps Power Electricity Grid in Vehicle-to-Grid Breakthrough

In a breakthrough for local clean energy, an electric school bus in Beverly, Massachusetts, successfully delivered power back to the electricity grid for more than 50 hours over the course of the summer. This is the first time an electric school bus has been leveraged as an energy resource by the regional utility National Grid in New England and among the first instances in the United States that ...

Oct. 14, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer
Wärtsilä Report: Accelerated Adoption of Renewables Can Reduce Electricity Production by 50%

The technology group Wärtsilä has issued a report ahead of COP26, the UN’s Climate Change Conference to be held in Glasgow this autumn, demonstrating the environmental and economic opportunities for states that decarbonise rapidly. The report was presented at the Economist Sustainability Week event on 6 October. The ‘Front-Loading Net Zero’ report states that electricity production costs could be ...

Oct. 12, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer
Enel X and ADR Launch Pioneer Project to Develop a Large Storage System with Second Life Batteries

Thanks to a partnership between Enel X and ADR (Aeroporti di Roma, Airports of Rome), second-life batteries from electric vehicles will be integrated into a 30 MW solar park being built at Rome Fiumicino Airport and scheduled to be finished by 2024, helping to drastically reduce emissions at the airport. The project, called Pioneer- airPort sustaInability secONd lifE battEry stoRage, has been ...

Oct. 12, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer
Report Calls for 103 Gigawatts of Distributed, Local Solar Power by 2030

The U.S. must deploy a minimum of 103 gigawatts (GW) of distributed, local solar power and 137 GW of distributed energy storage by 2030 to achieve President Biden’s climate and equity goals at the lowest cost. This is one of the core findings of a new report issued this week by Local Solar for All, a broad coalition of local solar advocates, based on analysis from electric grid modeling experts ...

Oct. 11, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer
Villara Energy Systems Teams up with Lumin to Provide High Power Battery Backup for Homes

Villara Energy Systems, maker of the high-powered VillaGrid energy storage system, announced this week its partnership with smart panel provider, Lumin. Lumin turns ordinary electrical panels into smart panels, protecting more circuits against power outages without allowing unintentional energy usage to drain batteries prematurely. Villara Energy Systems notes that its VillaGrid is the first home ...

Oct. 11, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer
Black & Veatch to Design, Build Canada’s First Electric Smart Grid

As the electric industry addresses growing demands for lower carbon footprints and heightened reliability and resilience, a Canadian community is entrusting Black & Veatch to transform its power system into a technology-driven, enhanced smart grid meant to lower consumer costs and slash greenhouse gas emissions. Billed as the first such community-wide utility effort in Canada, the Sault Smart ...

Oct. 8, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer
Georgia Power to Launch First Battery Energy Storage System on State's Transmission Grid

Georgia Power has received approval from the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) to build, own, and operate a new battery energy storage system. Known as the Mossy Branch Battery Facility, the grid-charging battery system is located on 2.5-acres in Talbot County, near Columbus, Georgia. This innovative facility will be the first standalone Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) on the Georgia ...

Oct. 8, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer
DTE Energy and Local Communities to Build First-of-its-kind Community Solar Project

DTE Energy this week announced the company is moving forward with a plan to build its first MIGreenPower community solar project in Washtenaw County. The 20-megawatt facility will be the largest in the region and is designed to support the City of Ann Arbor and Pittsfield Township with achieving their clean energy goals. Additionally, all DTE Electric customers will have the opportunity to ...

Oct. 5, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer
Itron Report Reveals Heightened Need for Resilient and Reliable Grid

Itron, Inc. released its 2021 Resourcefulness Insight Report detailing why modernizing energy infrastructure is the path to achieving a resilient and reliable grid that successfully mitigates the impacts of climate disruption, minimizes interruptions from natural disasters, integrates renewables and prepares for the increased adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). Preparing for the Unexpected and ...

Oct. 5, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer
GM Set to Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy in the U.S. 5 Years Ahead of Schedule

General Motors recently announced that it plans to source 100 percent renewable energy to power its U.S. sites by 2025 – five years earlier than previously announced, and 25 years ahead of its initial target that was set in 2016. By accelerating its renewable energy goal, GM aims to avoid 1 million metric tons of carbon emissions that would have been produced between 2025 and 2030. “We know ...

Oct. 4, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer
NBI Releases Code Overlay for Electrification

New Buildings Institute (NBI) wants to help jurisdictions bite off however much electrification they can chew. Recently released model code language offers provisions for requiring all-electric buildings and alternative provisions for requiring electric-ready buildings. Cities and towns can layer whichever version of this “decarbonization overlay” they are ready for on top of the ...

Oct. 4, 2021

By BuildingGreen Inc.
Enphase Energy and Sunpro Solar Expand Partnership to Include Battery Storage

Enphase Energy, Inc., a leading supplier of microinverter-based solar-plus-storage systems, recently (Sept 30) announced that Sunpro Solar, a rooftop solar provider and one of the fastest-growing residential solar-plus-storage service providers in the U.S., will now promote and install Enphase Encharge battery storage systems in addition to Enphase solar systems as its all-in-one home energy ...

Oct. 4, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

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