Hydro Generators News
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Green Light for Australia’s Largest Grid-Forming Battery
Australia’s largest battery with grid-forming inverter capabilities is set to go ahead, with AGL this week reaching a Final Investment Decision (FID) on a 500 MW / 1,000 MWh grid-forming battery in Liddell, New South Wales. Announced last year on behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) conditionally approved up to $35 million in funding to the project, ...
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Green Light for Australia’s Largest Grid-Forming Battery
Australia’s largest battery with grid-forming inverter capabilities is set to go ahead, with AGL this week reaching a Final Investment Decision (FID) on a 500 MW / 1,000 MWh grid-forming battery in Liddell, New South Wales. Announced last year on behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) conditionally approved up to $35 million in funding to the project, ...
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Fluence Energy Storage Project to Provide Advanced System Stability Services in the UK
Statkraft has chosen Fluence Energy UK Ltd., a subsidiary of Fluence Energy, Inc., to deliver its first battery-based energy storage project connected directly to the transmission network. It is also the third project across the UK and Ireland that Statkraft, Europe's largest generator of renewable energy, will deliver together with Fluence, a market leader in energy storage products and ...
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Transgrid Roadmap to Secure Grid in NSW's Clean Energy Transition
Transgrid has released a comprehensive energy roadmap revealing the unprecedented challenges and the $16.5 billion investment required to keep the lights on and achieve NSW's rapid transformation to a cleaner, cheaper energy future.The System Security Roadmap outlines the NSW Transmission Network Service Provider's detailed plan to grow the state's power system and ensure the secure operation of ...
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Biden Administration Invests $26 Million to Support a Modern, Reliable, and Resilient America
As part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy this week (May 10) announced $26 million for eight selected projects to demonstrate how solar, wind, storage, and other clean energy resources can support a reliable and efficient U.S. power grid. Funded by the President's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the projects will deploy innovative clean energy ...
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Scania and Northvolt Unveil Green Battery Capable of Powering Trucks for 1.5 Million Kilometers
This week (April 19), Scania and Northvolt unveiled a jointly developed battery cell for heavy electric vehicles. In validation tests, the lithium-ion cell has demonstrated an outstanding lifetime resulting in the capacity to power trucks for 1.5 million kilometers - equivalent to the truck's whole lifetime. Produced with fossil-free electricity in northern Sweden, the cell's carbon footprint is ...
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[Embrace green hydrogen] Pure hydrogen Fuel Cell Combined Heat & Power Solution Comes
Recently, HuaDe Hydrogen’s 5kWe pure hydrogen fuel cell cogeneration system (Model No. CarNeu-5) was successfully developed. It will be delivered to the northwest of China and applied for a project including PV, water hydrogen production - hydro-hydrogenation - power generation - heating integration project. The physical product diagram is shown in Figure 1. CarNeu-5 system is a pure ...
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ARENA Backs Eight Grid Scale Batteries Worth $2.7 Billion
On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $176 million in conditional funding to eight grid scale battery projects across Australia. Funded under ARENA’s Large Scale Battery Storage Funding Round, each battery will be equipped with grid-forming inverter technology, allowing them to provide essential system stability services traditionally ...
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Fluence and Litgrid Energy Storage-as-Transmission Pilot Project Wins S&P Global Energy Award
Fluence Energy, a global provider of energy storage products and services, and cloud-based software for renewables and storage, and Litgrid, the Lithuanian transmission system operator, won a prestigious international S&P Global Energy Award 2022 in the Grid Edge category. The award was given for a battery-based energy storage-as-transmission pilot project deployed in Lithuania by Litgrid and ...
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Simulating the Role of Grid-Forming Inverters in the Future Electric Grid
by Courtney Stenson, PNNLA Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) research team recently developed a new model of an important device that acts as a kind of translator, allowing renewable power sources like wind and solar to better add their power to the electrical grid. The device, called a grid-forming inverter, plays a critical role in converting direct current (DC) electricity produced ...
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Indiana Michigan Power Enters Rate Settlement Agreement that Provides Significant Customer Benefits
Indiana Michigan Power (I&M), an American Electric Power company, has filed with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) a rate settlement agreement that will reduce base rates for Hoosier residential customers while enhancing reliability. Under the settlement, I&M will reduce its base rates for Indiana residential customers by about 5% over two phases, with a slight decrease of ...
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What We Know -- and Do Not Know -- About Achieving a National-Scale 100% Renewable Electric Grid
With recently announced federal emissions-reduction targets, a push for national power-sector decarbonization, and plummeting wind and solar costs, the United States is poised to deploy major amounts of renewables, and fast. At smaller scales, hundreds of U.S. cities, states, and corporations have already taken bold action in setting their own local targets for 100% renewable energy and with ...
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African Utility Week returns to Cape Town in May with latest updates and success stories in power, energy and water
The African Utility Week conference has a longstanding reputation of producing innovative, topical and high-level content, discussion and engagement” says event director Evan Schiff, adding: “the 19th edition of the event from 14-16 May in Cape Town this year will, once again, not disappoint.” The new co-location of POWERGEN Africa in 2019 will add an expanded focus on ...
By VUKA Group
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Emrgy Inc. Announces Australasia Distribution Partnership
Emrgy Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Atlanta, Georgia USA is excited to announce an exclusive distribution contract with Emrgy Australasia, based in Geelong Victoria, to promote and develop our modular hydrokinetic projects throughout Australasia. The partnership launch includes the initial 100kW (10 module) order delivery to Australia beginning in June 2020. Emrgy Inc. is a USA based ...
By Emrgy Inc.
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AWG & SWG Alternators for Micro-CHP. the Range Keeps Growing
Sincro Enhancement on its CHP Programme Keeps On. By selecting Sincro alternators for your CHP power plant, you decide in favour of a wide and reliable range of solutions complying with CHP standards and regulations. During 2019 we launched our AWG asynchronous liquid cooled generators with positive feedback from the market. Due to this success, our offer of water cooled alternators becomes ...
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This Richland solar farm with cutting-edge energy storage will bring 100s of workers to train
Construction has begun on a 20-acre solar project that will be paired with batteries to power 600 Richland homes as soon as this summer. Energy Northwest expects the project to draw national attention as utilities watch to see how a megawatt-scale project integrates with battery storage for renewable energy sources. The project is expected to be the first commercial-scale development in ...
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Hydro Ottawa Chooses Opus One Solutions to Provide Transactive Energy Management Platform for MiGen
Opus One Solutions’ GridOS® Transactive Energy Management (GridOS-TEM) software platform has been chosen by Hydro Ottawa for its MiGen Transactive Grid program, which is desinged to give customers the ability to shape the future of the local electricity system through micro-generation.“As a Canadian-based clean tech innovator, we’re proud to be enabling Hydro Ottawa’s transactive grid with our ...
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Grid Mod: Dialing in Hydroelectric Generators' Responses to Market Signals
How do you reduce error between scheduled hydro-generation and the actual power produced? BPA's answer: Form a tight partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and evaluate existing systems and processes for areas of improvement.For years BPA, USACE and the Bureau of Reclamation have dealt with varying levels of Station Control Error (SCE) on the non-big 10 federal projects. The non-big 10 ...
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Hydrogrid receives the Austrian National Award for Digitalization
We are honored and humbled! On the 11th of April 2019 HYDROGRID was presented with the Austrian National Award for Digitization by secretary of commerce Margarete Schramböck at the 4Gamechangers Festival in Vienna. The federal government has emphasized the importance of digital transformation for industry, society and public administration and has given it high priority in the government ...
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Composite Technology Taps Industry Veterans for Business Growth of CTC Cable Subsidiary
Composite Technology Corporation (CTC) (OTC Bulletin Board: CPTC) is pleased to announce that its CTC Cable Corporation subsidiary has added two electrical utility veterans to head the business development and sales efforts. Don Douglas has joined the company as its Vice President of Business Development. In this new position, Don will be responsible for business development of CTC Cable ...
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