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Agilent Technologies` N6700 modular power system family adds application-specific modules for battery test, mobile device manufacturing
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the addition of two new application-specific modules to the N6700 Modular Power System (MPS) family, the N6783A-MFG mobile communications DC power module and the N6783A-BAT battery charge/discharge module. The N6783A-MFG module offers sourcing and measurement capabilities specifically designed to meet the challenges of battery-powered (mobile) ...
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ERCOT Provides New Look at Battery Storage Production on the Grid
As part of continued efforts to increase transparency into grid operations, ERCOT recently (Dec 7) announced the new Energy Storage Resources (ESR) dashboard and Integration Report that provides Texans with a view of charging and discharging battery production on the grid. “Energy Storage Resources (batteries) are connecting to the grid at an incredible rate and becoming a significant part of our ...
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Eaton Truck Business Now Supplying Electrical Power
Power management company Eaton has added a new DC to AC inverter to its lineup of products for the commercial vehicle industry. The new Eaton True Sine Wave Inverter produces either 1000 or 1800 Watts of AC power output from a standard Class 8 DC vehicle battery and can be used to power phone chargers, computers, heaters, microwaves, refrigerators, TVs, sleep apnea machines and more. “The ...
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Green Mountain Power Offers New “Bring Your Own Device” Program to Cut Energy Peaks
Green Mountain Power (GMP) has announced a new program to partner with customers to reduce costs during high energy use times. During peak times such as cold winter nights, GMP will share access with customers’ home or business battery storage systems, rather than purchasing expensive surplus power. In return, GMP will issue credits to customers based on the amount of energy transferred from the ...
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Overload on The Grid: What Is Happening?
Last month, Het Financieele Dagblad already wrote about the problems on the power grid: "expansion of the power grid is too slow, provinces warn". Urgent action needs to be taken. That this action is necessary is once again confirmed by DPG Media Nederland: "because countless wind and solar parks have been realized in recent years, the electricity grid is cracking." The Grid Capacity Action Team ...
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SMA Smartformer Enhances Design Flexibility of Sunny Island Systems
SMA announces the availability of its Smartformer, a transformer and distribution box that is compatible with SMA’s Sunny Island inverters. Available in the North American Market, the UL certified Smartformer facilitates easy application for off-grid or grid-tied battery backup single Sunny Island systems. With this product SMA continues its efforts to improve the performance of battery ...
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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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Nissan and EDF Group Partner to Accelerate Electric Vehicle Adoption and Grid Integration Across Europe
Nissan and EDF Group have signed a cooperation agreement to accelerate the delivery of electric mobility together - particularly through the smart charging of electric vehicles. This agreement applies to the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Italy. The cooperation agreement focuses mainly on developing smart charging solutions (vehicle to grid, or V2G) by bringing together technologies ...
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Solar-Plus-Storage Solution for Homeowners
Ginlong Technologies, a specialist in photovoltaic string inverter manufacturing, announces that its Solis storage inverter is now compatible with LG home battery RESU. The Solis Residential Hybrid Inverter (RHI) now is fully compatible with LG RESU 48V line-ups to provide stable, reliable home energy storage. With this partnership, Ginlong is offering more choices to customers in the U.S., ...
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New technique reveals lithium in action
Fundamental reactions behind advanced battery technology, revealed in detail by advanced imaging method, could lead to improved materials. Written by David L. Chandler, MIT News Office.You can read the original story in MIT News A solid-state lithium-air battery (highlighted in orange) is positioned inside a test chamber at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ...
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NREL Model Licensed to Improve Accuracy of Battery Simulations
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has licensed its Equivalent Circuit Battery Model to software developer ThermoAnalytics for use in its recently updated RadTherm software package. The model is a part of the Battery Module within RadTherm, which is used by engineers to simulate the performance of battery cells and optimize multi-cell pack designs. Before ...
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Palm Energy Acquires Behind the Meter Microgrids from NRG Energy
Palm Energy recently announced the acquisition of several Behind the Meter (BTM) solutions from NRG Energy, a leading integrated power company in the United States. The acquired portfolio includes approximately 15 MWs of commercial and industrial customers located in PJM and New England which will increase Palm Energy's managed MWs in those markets. Palm Energy will own, operate, maintain, and ...
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WEC Energy Group Announces Project to Demonstrate Long-Duration Organic Flow Battery Storage
WEC Energy Group this week (Feb 2) announced that the company will lead a pilot project at its Valley Power Plant in Milwaukee to test a new form of long-duration energy storage. WEC Energy Group is collaborating with EPRI, an independent, nonprofit energy research and development institute, and CMBlu Energy, the developer and manufacturer of the long-duration battery based in California and ...
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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 ...
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SDG&E Flips the Switch on on Region’s First Vehicle-to-Grid Project
This week (July 27) San Diego Gas & Electric announced that it has successfully deployed an innovative technology that enables eight electric school buses to put electricity back on the grid when needed such as on hot summer days. A collaborative effort between SDG&E, the Cajon Valley Union School District and locally based technology company Nuvve, this is the first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) ...
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A New Way to Harness Waste Heat
Original story at MIT News Vast amounts of excess heat are generated by industrial processes and by electric power plants; researchers around the world have spent decades seeking ways to harness some of this wasted energy. Most such efforts have focused on thermoelectric devices, solid-state materials that can produce electricity from a temperature gradient, but the efficiency of such devices is ...
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PG&E and BMW of North America Start V2X Testing in California
As electric vehicles (become more prevalent, with approximately 40% of all EVs in the United States driving on California roads, Pacific Gas and Electric Company and BMW of North America are collaborating to test how vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology can serve as a solution to offset growing demand on the power grid, improve reliability for electric customers, and maximize the usage of ...
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25,000 PG&E and Tesla Customers Invited to Form World's Largest Distributed Battery
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Tesla Inc. have launched a new pilot program that creates a virtual power plant, to help support electric grid reliability and save customers money. On June 22, Tesla invited approximately 25,000 PG&E customers with Powerwalls to join the VPP and help form the world's largest distributed battery. In the first two weeks of the new program, more ...
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More than $10 billion to be spent on new generation worldwide—most of it on renewables
The world’s energy mix is continuing to evolve with wind and solar projected to account for 82 percent of the installed generation capacity by 2040, as the role of coal and even natural gas decline, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) forecast. Installed solar capacity will increase 14-fold and wind capacity fourfold by 2040, according to BNEF’s 2017 New Energy ...
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