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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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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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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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Regalgrid Europe Launches Its Smart Energy Sharing Solution
Regalgrid® an Italian startup that provides localized shared energy solutions recently debuted their first installation at H-FARM. The technology has huge potential in disrupting the future of energy consumption by giving more control to its consumers and helping them become more energy autonomous. Regalgrid's technology uses a patented software where multiple users can share their energy ...
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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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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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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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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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U.S. Department of Energy Partners with NASA to Call for Transformative Energy Ideas
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today (3/29) joined NASA in launching a new NASA iTech challenge, a competition inviting the nation's top entrepreneurs and researchers to showcase their ideas for transformative energy concepts. The challenge seeks to identify innovative technologies that can improve energy generation, storage and distribution to ...
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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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SAE International Announces 2011 Vehicle Battery Summit - 14-15 November, in Shanghai
An explosion of recent research on Li-ion battery development, along with the growing international commitment to the market penetration of battery powered vehicles, has prompted development of the SAE International 2011 Vehicle Battery Summit, November 14-15, 2011 in Shanghai. Designed to integrate the most recent battery innovations with lessons learned in recent EV/PHEV commercialization ...
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NEC Energy Solutions to Supply SCE With First "Plug-And-Play" Battery Grid Energy Storage Solution
November 3, 2016 -- NEC Energy Solutions, a subsidiary of NEC Corporation, recently announced that it is supplying Southern California Edison (SCE) with its first grid energy storage pilot system under a pre-approved energy storage procurement program initially conceived of and announced by SCE last year. The NEC ES GSS grid storage solution product line is the first in the "plug-and-play" ...
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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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GridWise Alliance Praises Senate Bipartisan Infrastructure Group on Electric Grid Investments
The GridWise Alliance applauds the U.S. Senate bipartisan infrastructure group for its leadership with the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The grid provisions in the infrastructure bill will be an historic investment to accelerate the deployment of technologies and systems to modernize and enhance the electric grid."GridWise Alliance members and its Grid Infrastructure ...
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Obama Administration Releases Second Installment of the Quadrennial Energy Review
On January 6, the Obama Administration released the second installment of the Quadrennial Energy Review (QER), which focuses on the national security, environmental protection, and economic development imperatives of the electricity system in the United States. More than 70 recommendations are proposed to enable the electricity sector to manage the risks and opportunities of the 21st Century ...
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ETI announces technology project to significantly reduce subsea cable costs for marine energy devices
A project which could considerably reduce the cost of cabling from offshore wave and tidal farms to the shore has been announced by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI).This 18 month project, costing £1.1m and led by MacArtney, will develop an 11kV wet-mate connector, which will be tested and demonstrated under workshop and real-sea conditions.The connectors enable two power cables to be ...
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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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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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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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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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