distributed energy storage News
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Johnson Controls helps one of the world`s largest commercial buildings regulate energy usage
Johnson Controls is bringing its world-class battery technology and building systems expertise to the growing energy storage market by installing distributed energy storage technology in Chicago's iconic Merchandise Mart, one of the world's largest commercial buildings and wholesale design centers. This represents one of a number of energy storage projects in development by Johnson Controls for ...
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Green Charge and Hawaiian Electric Work to Bring Advanced Grid Services to University of Hawaii
Green Charge, an ENGIE Company, recently (1/10) announced a demonstration project with Hawaiian Electric Company to bring distributed energy storage services to the University of Hawaii medical campus near downtown Honolulu. GridSynergy™ systems have been installed at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center and the John A. Burns School of Medicine. The demonstration project will test the ...
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Chris hickman joins ice energy
Windsor, Colo.-based Ice Energy, a provider of distributed energy storage and smart grid solutions for optimizing peak energy demand, has appointed Chris Hickman senior vice president of utility solutions. Hickman will be instrumental in leading the sale and delivery of the company's energy storage and smart grid technologies and providing utility companies with cost-effective solutions to ...
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JLM Energy Deploys Phazr Energy Storage Statewide in California
California’s new utility rates undercut the value of rooftop solar. To help customers combat this dynamic, JLM Energy has deployed more than 2,000 Phazr MicroStorage units and is successfully managing residential time-of-use charges for customers in all three major utility territories from San Diego to the Oregon border. Time-of-use rates are designed to charge a premium for electricity ...
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Green Charge Awarded Contract With Con Edison to Deliver 13 Megawatt Hours of Distributed Energy Storage
November 8, 2016 -- Green Charge recently announced a contract award from Con Edison in New York to deliver 13 megawatt hours for Con Edison's Brooklyn-Queens Neighborhood Program. Green Charge will install and operate intelligent energy storage, at no cost to site host customers, within areas of Brooklyn and Queens. The distributed energy storage portfolio will operate as a virtual power plant ...
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Energy Storage Projects To Benefit Emergency Service Providers And Nonprofits
Recently, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) took another step toward preparing the region for the next major emergency. The company announced plans to add up to 166 megawatts (MW) of energy storage in a proposal submitted to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). If approved, the projects would support public-sector facilities that provide safety, security and emergency ...
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SimpliPhi CEO Honored as Global Power & Energy Elite for 2021
SimpliPhi Power’s CEO and president, Catherine Von Burg, has been honored as an Elite Leader as part of the Global Power & Energy Elites for 2021, among only ten individuals selected for this prestigious recognition. The company’s battery-powered microgrid at a migrant camp along the US-Mexico border in Matamoros was also selected as an Elite Project for its humanitarian impact ...
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California State Lottery Achieves Net Zero with CALMAC
CALMAC, a leader in energy storage systems, today announced the installation of its IceBank® thermal energy storage tanks at the California State Lottery Headquarters in Sacramento, Calif. The old, inefficient building was replaced by a new building, which now consists of retail, exhibition and office space plus a net-zero multi-purpose pavilion. It is designed to not only be energy ...
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Urgent Need for New Stationary Storage, According to IDTechEx
Starved of lithium-ion batteries and pumped storage sites, the stationary energy storage business is urgently looking for alternatives, according to a new report from IDTechEx.Tesla now sells its Powerwall house battery only to those buying the full solar house and, like its competitors, it has delayed electric vehicle launches also due to battery shortage. Metals shortages are taking over from ...
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Arizona Public Service Selects Sunverge for Innovative Residential Energy Storage Program
Sunverge Energy has signed deals with three major electric utilities serving millions of customers in Arizona, Florida and Vermont, expanding the utility customer base for its advanced, intelligent storage systems and Virtual Power Plant (VPP) platform. The utilities, which serve areas with significant diversity of climate, solar availability and demand patterns, all have recently purchased ...
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Alliance To Help Utilities Develop Private Wireless Broadband Networks to Support Grid Modernization
pdvWireless, Inc. announced recently (1/17) that Southern Company subsidiary Southern Linc will serve as a founding member of an alliance of utilities and vendors that will become a hub of information sharing, collaboration and planning to assist the development of private wireless broadband networks owned by and dedicated to utilities. The alliance will aim to drive scale and innovation for the ...
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Shell Agrees To Acquire sonnen
Shell* has agreed to acquire 100% of sonnen, a leader in smart energy storage systems and innovative energy services for households. This follows an investment by Shell in May 2018 and means that, post regulatory approval and completion, sonnen will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell. “sonnen is one of the global leaders in smart, distributed energy storage systems and has a track ...
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SimpliPhi CEO: CA Must Reform its Energy Market & Infrastructure
Catherine Von Burg, CEO of SimpliPhi Power Inc., an Oxnard-based provider of innovative energy storage systems, today called on California officials to reform the state’s antiquated energy laws, regulations and infrastructure, and adopt distributed energy generation and storage to provide real long-term solutions and greater safety than the state-approved “Public Safety Power ...
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FSP Microgrid Energy Storage System Creates New Value for Renewable Energy
FSP, a Top 10 global power supply manufacturer, has been working with leading enterprises to promote ESG sustainability and green governance transformations to meet global targets of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. FSP and renewable energy partners are now investing heavily in the development of distributed energy storage systems (ESS) for microgrids to maximize the benefits of renewable ...
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Ice Energy Completes First Phase of Largest Distributed Thermal Storage System Installation in U.S.
Ice Energy, a leading provider of distributed thermal energy storage solutions, recently announced that it has completed the first phase of what will be the largest installation of its Ice Bear systems in the U.S., under a 21.6-megawatt (MW) energy storage contract with Southern California Edison (SCE). Approximately 100 Ice Bear systems, including the newly available Ice Bear 40 model, have been ...
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Storing the Sun for a Rainy Day
It's been a miserable winter in Germany. Parts of the country have had 60% fewer sunshine hours than normal. A series of cold snaps have swept the country, reminding all just how expensive heating has become. Germany's 'Energiewende' (Energy Transition) policy - an intent to be 60% reliable on renewable energy sources for the country's total energy consumption by 2050 - is helping cut costs. ...
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White Paper: Grid Modernization and the Imperative for Utility Transformation
A friend once made a comment about the electric system, “You are in the only industry, in which you send us a product and take it right back.” He was alluding to the closed loop which needs to exist for electricity to flow. While being somewhat humorous, it is a very profound statement. The grid still depends on electrons flowing from a generating source to the consuming source. ...
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Ameresco Announces Contract for Large Distribution Battery Energy Storage Systems in California
Ameresco, a leading cleantech integrator and renewable energy asset developer, owner and operator, this week announced that it has entered into a contract with Southern California Edison (SCE) to design and build three grid scale battery energy storage systems (BESSs) at existing substation parcels throughout SCE's service territory in California. Due to the impact of the extreme weather events ...
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Irvine Company Completes World's First Collection of Hybrid Electric Buildings
The Irvine Company and Southern California Edison (SCE) conducted a 'virtual ribbon cutting' recently (4/24) on the world's first fleet of Hybrid Electric Buildings® which feature state-of-the-art Tesla Powerpack battery systems. The 21 high-rise office buildings are also equipped with Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS) energy management and optimization software that employs advanced analytics ...
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Energy Department Invests up to $32 Million to Improve Resilience of the Nation`s Power Grid
The U.S. Energy Department recently announced up to $32 million for seven Resilient Distribution Systems projects, which will support early stage research and development of next-generation tools and technologies that will further improve the resilience of the nation's electric grid. This is the second round of funding under the Department's Grid Modernization Initiative, a DOE-wide ...
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